18.2 problem 8

Internal problem ID [14829]

Book: INTRODUCTORY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Martha L. Abell, James P. Braselton. Fourth edition 2014. ElScAe. 2014
Section: Chapter 4. Higher Order Equations. Chapter 4 review exercises, page 219
Problem number: 8.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-y^{\prime }-2 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

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

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[y''[x]-y'[x]-2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

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