67.11.4 problem 17.1 (d)

Internal problem ID [16605]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section : Chapter 17. Second order Homogeneous equations with constant coefficients. Additional exercises page 334
Problem number : 17.1 (d)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 01:36:54 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+3 y^{\prime }&=0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 12
ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+3*diff(y(x),x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = c_1 +c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{-3 x} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 19
ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+3*D[y[x],x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to c_2-\frac {1}{3} c_1 e^{-3 x} \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.077 (sec). Leaf size: 10
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(3*Derivative(y(x), x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} + C_{2} e^{- 3 x} \]