87.20.1 problem 1

Internal problem ID [23686]
Book : Ordinary differential equations with modern applications. Ladas, G. E. and Finizio, N. Wadsworth Publishing. California. 1978. ISBN 0-534-00552-7. QA372.F56
Section : Chapter 3. Linear Systems. Exercise at page 161
Problem number : 1
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:44:15 PM
CAS classification : system_of_ODEs

\begin{align*} x_{1}^{\prime }\left (t \right )&=4 x_{1} \left (t \right )-x_{2} \left (t \right )\\ x_{2}^{\prime }\left (t \right )&=2 x_{1} \left (t \right )+x_{2} \left (t \right ) \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.044 (sec). Leaf size: 34
ode:=[diff(x__1(t),t) = 4*x__1(t)-x__2(t), diff(x__2(t),t) = 2*x__1(t)+x__2(t)]; 
dsolve(ode);
 
\begin{align*} x_{1} \left (t \right ) &= c_1 \,{\mathrm e}^{2 t}+c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{3 t} \\ x_{2} \left (t \right ) &= 2 c_1 \,{\mathrm e}^{2 t}+c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{3 t} \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 59
ode={D[x1[t],t]==4*x1[t]-x2[t],D[x2[t],t]==2*x1[t]+x2[t]}; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},{x1[t],x2[t]},t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} \text {x1}(t)&\to e^{2 t} \left (c_1 \left (2 e^t-1\right )-c_2 \left (e^t-1\right )\right )\\ \text {x2}(t)&\to e^{2 t} \left (2 c_1 \left (e^t-1\right )-c_2 \left (e^t-2\right )\right ) \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.077 (sec). Leaf size: 32
from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x1 = Function("x1") 
x2 = Function("x2") 
ode=[Eq(-4*x1(t) + x2(t) + Derivative(x1(t), t),0),Eq(-2*x1(t) - x2(t) + Derivative(x2(t), t),0)] 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=[x1(t),x2(t)],ics=ics)
 
\[ \left [ x_{1}{\left (t \right )} = \frac {C_{1} e^{2 t}}{2} + C_{2} e^{3 t}, \ x_{2}{\left (t \right )} = C_{1} e^{2 t} + C_{2} e^{3 t}\right ] \]