2.7.18 problem 34

Internal problem ID [824]
Book : Differential equations and linear algebra, 3rd ed., Edwards and Penney
Section : Section 5.1, second order linear equations. Page 299
Problem number : 34
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 04:15:50 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime }-15 y&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 17

ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+2*diff(y(x),x)-15*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \left (c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{8 x}+c_1 \right ) {\mathrm e}^{-5 x} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.008 (sec). Leaf size: 22

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+2*D[y[x],x]-15*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to e^{-5 x} \left (c_2 e^{8 x}+c_1\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.114 (sec). Leaf size: 15

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-15*y(x) + 2*Derivative(y(x), x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} e^{- 5 x} + C_{2} e^{3 x} \]