67.11.7 problem 17.2 (a)

Internal problem ID [16608]
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 : 17.2 (a)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 01:36:56 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }-8 y^{\prime }+15 y&=0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=1 \\ y^{\prime }\left (0\right )&=0 \\ \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.042 (sec). Leaf size: 17
ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-8*diff(y(x),x)+15*y(x) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 1, D(y)(0) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = \frac {5 \,{\mathrm e}^{3 x}}{2}-\frac {3 \,{\mathrm e}^{5 x}}{2} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.009 (sec). Leaf size: 23
ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]-8*D[y[x],x]+15*y[x]==0; 
ic={y[0]==1,Derivative[1][y][0] ==0}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {1}{2} e^{3 x} \left (5-3 e^{2 x}\right ) \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.107 (sec). Leaf size: 19
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(15*y(x) - 8*Derivative(y(x), x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {y(0): 1, Subs(Derivative(y(x), x), x, 0): 0} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \left (\frac {5}{2} - \frac {3 e^{2 x}}{2}\right ) e^{3 x} \]