78.23.2 problem 3 (b)

Internal problem ID [18374]
Book : DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH APPLICATIONS AND HISTORICAL NOTES by George F. Simmons. 3rd edition. 2017. CRC press, Boca Raton FL.
Section : Chapter 9. Laplace transforms. Section 50. Applications to differential equations. Problems at page 462
Problem number : 3 (b)
Date solved : Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 11:55:11 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }-4 y^{\prime }+4 y&=0 \end{align*}

Using Laplace method With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=0\\ y^{\prime }\left (0\right )&=3 \end{align*}

Maple. Time used: 0.175 (sec). Leaf size: 11
ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-4*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x) = 0; 
ic:=y(0) = 0, D(y)(0) = 3; 
dsolve([ode,ic],y(x),method='laplace');
 
\[ y = 3 \,{\mathrm e}^{2 x} x \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 13
ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]-4*D[y[x],x]+4*y[x]==0; 
ic={y[0]==0,Derivative[1][y][0] == 3}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\[ y(x)\to 3 e^{2 x} x \]
Sympy. Time used: 0.163 (sec). Leaf size: 10
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(4*y(x) - 4*Derivative(y(x), x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {y(0): 0, Subs(Derivative(y(x), x), x, 0): 3} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = 3 x e^{2 x} \]