90.25.8 problem 8

Internal problem ID [25389]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations. By William Adkins and Mark G Davidson. Springer. NY. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4614-3617-1
Section : Chapter 5. Second Order Linear Differential Equations. Exercises at page 379
Problem number : 8
Date solved : Friday, October 03, 2025 at 12:00:50 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 22

ode:=diff(diff(y(t),t),t)+y(t) = sec(t); 
dsolve(ode,y(t), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = -\ln \left (\sec \left (t \right )\right ) \cos \left (t \right )+\cos \left (t \right ) c_1 +\sin \left (t \right ) \left (t +c_2 \right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 22

ode=D[y[t],{t,2}]+y[t]==Sec[t]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(t)&\to (t+c_2) \sin (t)+\cos (t) (\log (\cos (t))+c_1) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.131 (sec). Leaf size: 19

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

\[ y{\left (t \right )} = \left (C_{1} + t\right ) \sin {\left (t \right )} + \left (C_{2} + \log {\left (\cos {\left (t \right )} \right )}\right ) \cos {\left (t \right )} \]