65.6.1 problem 1

Internal problem ID [15694]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section : Chapter 2. The Initial Value Problem. Exercises 2.3.2, page 63
Problem number : 1
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 10:23:15 AM
CAS classification : [_quadrature]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=3 y \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=-1 \\ \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.026 (sec). Leaf size: 10
ode:=diff(y(x),x) = 3*y(x); 
ic:=[y(0) = -1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = -{\mathrm e}^{3 x} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 12
ode=D[y[x],x]==3*y[x]; 
ic={y[0]==-1}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to -e^{3 x} \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.060 (sec). Leaf size: 8
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-3*y(x) + Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {y(0): -1} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = - e^{3 x} \]