57.9.23 problem 6

Internal problem ID [14431]
Book : A First Course in Differential Equations by J. David Logan. Third Edition. Springer-Verlag, NY. 2015.
Section : Chapter 2, Second order linear equations. Section 2.3.1 Nonhomogeneous Equations: Undetermined Coefficients. Exercises page 110
Problem number : 6
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:37:07 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

\begin{align*} x^{\prime \prime }+2 x&=\cos \left (\sqrt {2}\, t \right ) \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} x \left (0\right )&=0 \\ x^{\prime }\left (0\right )&=1 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.023 (sec). Leaf size: 18

ode:=diff(diff(x(t),t),t)+2*x(t) = cos(2^(1/2)*t); 
ic:=[x(0) = 0, D(x)(0) = 1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],x(t), singsol=all);
 

\[ x = \frac {\sqrt {2}\, \sin \left (\sqrt {2}\, t \right ) \left (2+t \right )}{4} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.09 (sec). Leaf size: 25

ode=D[x[t],{t,2}]+2*x[t]==Cos[Sqrt[2]*t]; 
ic={x[0]==0,Derivative[1][x][0 ]==1}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},x[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} x(t)&\to \frac {(t+2) \sin \left (\sqrt {2} t\right )}{2 \sqrt {2}} \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.073 (sec). Leaf size: 26

from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x = Function("x") 
ode = Eq(2*x(t) - cos(sqrt(2)*t) + Derivative(x(t), (t, 2)),0) 
ics = {x(0): 0, Subs(Derivative(x(t), t), t, 0): 1} 
dsolve(ode,func=x(t),ics=ics)
 

\[ x{\left (t \right )} = \left (\frac {\sqrt {2} t}{4} + \frac {\sqrt {2}}{2}\right ) \sin {\left (\sqrt {2} t \right )} \]