30.12.14 problem 14

Internal problem ID [7606]
Book : Fundamentals of Differential Equations. By Nagle, Saff and Snider. 9th edition. Boston. Pearson 2018.
Section : Chapter 4, Linear Second-Order Equations. EXERCISES 4.2 at page 164
Problem number : 14
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 04:54:51 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime }&=0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=2 \\ y^{\prime }\left (0\right )&=1 \\ \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.010 (sec). Leaf size: 12
ode:=diff(diff(y(t),t),t)+diff(y(t),t) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 2, D(y)(0) = 1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(t), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = 3-{\mathrm e}^{-t} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.037 (sec). Leaf size: 14
ode=D[y[t],{t,2}]+D[y[t],t]==0; 
ic={y[0]==2,Derivative[1][y][0] ==1}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(t)&\to 3-e^{-t} \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.081 (sec). Leaf size: 8
from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(Derivative(y(t), t) + Derivative(y(t), (t, 2)),0) 
ics = {y(0): 2, Subs(Derivative(y(t), t), t, 0): 1} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(t),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (t \right )} = 3 - e^{- t} \]