67.11.20 problem 17.4 (b)

Internal problem ID [16621]
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 : 17.4 (b)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 01:37:05 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }-8 y^{\prime }+16 y&=0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.040 (sec). Leaf size: 10

ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-8*diff(y(x),x)+16*y(x) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 0, D(y)(0) = 1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{4 x} x \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.01 (sec). Leaf size: 12

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]-8*D[y[x],x]+16*y[x]==0; 
ic={y[0]==0,Derivative[1][y][0] ==1}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to e^{4 x} x \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.094 (sec). Leaf size: 8

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(16*y(x) - 8*Derivative(y(x), x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {y(0): 0, Subs(Derivative(y(x), x), x, 0): 1} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = x e^{4 x} \]