14.13.9 problem 9

Internal problem ID [3818]
Book : Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section : Chapter 9, First order linear systems. Section 9.1, page 587
Problem number : 9
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 06:57:43 AM
CAS classification : system_of_ODEs

\begin{align*} \frac {d}{d t}x_{1} \left (t \right )&=2 x_{2} \left (t \right )\\ \frac {d}{d t}x_{2} \left (t \right )&=x_{1} \left (t \right )+x_{2} \left (t \right ) \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} x_{1} \left (0\right )&=3 \\ x_{2} \left (0\right )&=0 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.135 (sec). Leaf size: 29

ode:=[diff(x__1(t),t) = 2*x__2(t), diff(x__2(t),t) = x__1(t)+x__2(t)]; 
ic:=[x__1(0) = 3, x__2(0) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)]);
 

\begin{align*} x_{1} \left (t \right ) &= {\mathrm e}^{2 t}+2 \,{\mathrm e}^{-t} \\ x_{2} \left (t \right ) &= {\mathrm e}^{2 t}-{\mathrm e}^{-t} \\ \end{align*}

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 34

ode={D[x1[t],t]==2*x2[t],D[x2[t],t]==x1[t]+x2[t]}; 
ic={x1[0]==3,x2[0]==0}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},{x1[t],x2[t]},t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} \text {x1}(t)&\to e^{-t} \left (e^{3 t}+2\right )\\ \text {x2}(t)&\to e^{-t} \left (e^{3 t}-1\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.052 (sec). Leaf size: 29

from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x__1 = Function("x__1") 
x__2 = Function("x__2") 
ode=[Eq(-2*x__2(t) + Derivative(x__1(t), t),0),Eq(-x__1(t) - x__2(t) + Derivative(x__2(t), t),0)] 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=[x__1(t),x__2(t)],ics=ics)
 

\[ \left [ x^{1}{\left (t \right )} = - 2 C_{1} e^{- t} + C_{2} e^{2 t}, \ x^{2}{\left (t \right )} = C_{1} e^{- t} + C_{2} e^{2 t}\right ] \]