10.3 problem 3

Internal problem ID [11733]

Book: Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section: Chapter 4, Section 4.2. The homogeneous linear equation with constant coefficients. Exercises page 135
Problem number: 3.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {4 y^{\prime \prime }-12 y^{\prime }+5 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 17

dsolve(4*diff(y(x),x$2)-12*diff(y(x),x)+5*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{\frac {x}{2}}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{\frac {5 x}{2}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 24

DSolve[4*y''[x]-12*y'[x]+5*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{x/2} \left (c_2 e^{2 x}+c_1\right ) \]