73.3.6 problem 7 (vi)

Internal problem ID [19816]
Book : Elementary Differential Equations. By R.L.E. Schwarzenberger. Chapman and Hall. London. First Edition (1969)
Section : Chapter 5. Linear equations. Exercises at page 85
Problem number : 7 (vi)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 04:44:06 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

\begin{align*} x^{\prime \prime }+x&=\cos \left (t \right ) \end{align*}

With initial conditions

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.020 (sec). Leaf size: 12

ode:=diff(diff(x(t),t),t)+x(t) = cos(t); 
ic:=[x(0) = 0, D(x)(0) = 1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],x(t), singsol=all);
 

\[ x = \sin \left (t \right ) \left (1+\frac {t}{2}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.018 (sec). Leaf size: 14

ode=D[x[t],{t,2}]+x[t]==Cos[t]; 
ic={x[0]==0,Derivative[1][x][0] == 1}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},x[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} x(t)&\to \frac {1}{2} (t+2) \sin (t) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.052 (sec). Leaf size: 10

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

\[ x{\left (t \right )} = \left (\frac {t}{2} + 1\right ) \sin {\left (t \right )} \]