10.2 problem 2

Internal problem ID [14475]

Book: INTRODUCTORY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Martha L. Abell, James P. Braselton. Fourth edition 2014. ElScAe. 2014
Section: Chapter 4. Higher Order Equations. Exercises 4.2, page 147
Problem number: 2.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

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

Solution by Maple

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

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

\[ y \left (t \right ) = {\mathrm e}^{6 t} c_{1} +c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-2 t} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[y''[t]-4*y'[t]-12*y[t]==0,y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(t)\to e^{-2 t} \left (c_2 e^{8 t}+c_1\right ) \]