8.8 problem 11

Internal problem ID [11720]

Book: Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section: Chapter 4, Section 4.1. Basic theory of linear differential equations. Exercises page 113
Problem number: 11.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-5 y^{\prime }+4 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-5*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{4 x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.011 (sec). Leaf size: 20

DSolve[y''[x]-5*y'[x]+4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^x \left (c_2 e^{3 x}+c_1\right ) \]