5.15 problem Problem 24.44

Internal problem ID [5214]

Book: Schaums Outline Differential Equations, 4th edition. Bronson and Costa. McGraw Hill 2014
Section: Chapter 24. Solutions of linear DE by Laplace transforms. Supplementary Problems. page 248
Problem number: Problem 24.44.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\[ \boxed {x^{\prime \prime }+4 x^{\prime }+4 x=0} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [x \left (0\right ) = 2, x^{\prime }\left (0\right ) = -2] \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.453 (sec). Leaf size: 13

dsolve([diff(x(t),t$2)+4*diff(x(t),t)+4*x(t)=0,x(0) = 2, D(x)(0) = -2],x(t), singsol=all)
 

\[ x \left (t \right ) = 2 \left (t +1\right ) {\mathrm e}^{-2 t} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.024 (sec). Leaf size: 47

DSolve[{x''[t]+3*x'[t]+4*x[t]==0,{x[0]==2,x'[0]==-2}},x[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ x(t)\to \frac {2}{7} e^{-3 t/2} \left (\sqrt {7} \sin \left (\frac {\sqrt {7} t}{2}\right )+7 \cos \left (\frac {\sqrt {7} t}{2}\right )\right ) \]