58.11.26 problem 26

Internal problem ID [14757]
Book : Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section : Chapter 4, Section 4.3. The method of undetermined coefficients. Exercises page 151
Problem number : 26
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:50:50 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+5 y^{\prime }+4 y&=16 x +20 \,{\mathrm e}^{x} \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=0 \\ y^{\prime }\left (0\right )&=3 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.021 (sec). Leaf size: 19

ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+5*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x) = 16*x+20*exp(x); 
ic:=[y(0) = 0, D(y)(0) = 3]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = 3 \,{\mathrm e}^{-x}-5+2 \,{\mathrm e}^{x}+4 x \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.194 (sec). Leaf size: 22

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+5*D[y[x],x]+4*y[x]==16*x+20*Exp[x]; 
ic={y[0]==0,Derivative[1][y][0] ==3}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to 4 x+3 e^{-x}+2 e^x-5 \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.131 (sec). Leaf size: 17

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-16*x + 4*y(x) - 20*exp(x) + 5*Derivative(y(x), x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {y(0): 0, Subs(Derivative(y(x), x), x, 0): 3} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = 4 x + 2 e^{x} - 5 + 3 e^{- x} \]