57.17.5 problem 7

Internal problem ID [14485]
Book : A First Course in Differential Equations by J. David Logan. Third Edition. Springer-Verlag, NY. 2015.
Section : Chapter 3, Laplace transform. Section 3.4 Impulsive sources. Exercises page 173
Problem number : 7
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:37:45 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

\begin{align*} x^{\prime \prime }+x&=3 \delta \left (t -2 \pi \right ) \end{align*}

Using Laplace method With initial conditions

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.217 (sec). Leaf size: 17

ode:=diff(diff(x(t),t),t)+x(t) = 3*Dirac(t-2*Pi); 
ic:=[x(0) = 0, D(x)(0) = 1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],x(t),method='laplace');
 

\[ x = \sin \left (t \right ) \left (3 \operatorname {Heaviside}\left (t -2 \pi \right )+1\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 18

ode=D[x[t],{t,2}]+x[t]==3*DiracDelta[t-2*Pi]; 
ic={x[0]==0,Derivative[1][x][0 ]==1}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},x[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} x(t)&\to (3 \theta (t-2 \pi )+1) \sin (t) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.482 (sec). Leaf size: 65

from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x = Function("x") 
ode = Eq(-3*Dirac(t - 2*pi) + x(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)
 

\[ x{\left (t \right )} = \left (- 3 \int \operatorname {Dirac}{\left (t - 2 \pi \right )} \sin {\left (t \right )}\, dt + 3 \int \limits ^{0} \operatorname {Dirac}{\left (t - 2 \pi \right )} \sin {\left (t \right )}\, dt\right ) \cos {\left (t \right )} + \left (3 \int \operatorname {Dirac}{\left (t - 2 \pi \right )} \cos {\left (t \right )}\, dt - 3 \int \limits ^{0} \operatorname {Dirac}{\left (t - 2 \pi \right )} \cos {\left (t \right )}\, dt + 1\right ) \sin {\left (t \right )} \]