18.14 problem 20

Internal problem ID [14841]

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: 20.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {12 y^{\prime \prime }+8 y^{\prime }+y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 17

dsolve(12*diff(y(x),x$2)+8*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 26

DSolve[12*y''[x]+8*y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{-x/2} \left (c_1 e^{x/3}+c_2\right ) \]