10.4 problem 4

Internal problem ID [14477]

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: 4.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+3 y^{\prime }-4 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 17

dsolve(diff(y(t),t$2)+3*diff(y(t),t)-4*y(t)=0,y(t), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (t \right ) = \left (c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{5 t}+c_{2} \right ) {\mathrm e}^{-4 t} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 20

DSolve[y''[t]+3*y'[t]-4*y[t]==0,y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(t)\to c_1 e^{-4 t}+c_2 e^t \]