81.13.10 problem 17-10

Internal problem ID [21684]
Book : The Differential Equations Problem Solver. VOL. I. M. Fogiel director. REA, NY. 1978. ISBN 78-63609
Section : Chapter 17. Reduction of Order. Page 420
Problem number : 17-10
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 07:59:58 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+k^{2} y&=0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 17
ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+k^2*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = c_1 \sin \left (k x \right )+c_2 \cos \left (k x \right ) \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.009 (sec). Leaf size: 20
ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+k^2*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to c_1 \cos (k x)+c_2 \sin (k x) \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.047 (sec). Leaf size: 19
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(k**2*y(x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} e^{- i k x} + C_{2} e^{i k x} \]