58.12.1 problem 1

Internal problem ID [14786]
Book : Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section : Chapter 4, Section 4.4. Variation of parameters. Exercises page 162
Problem number : 1
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:54:52 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 24

ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+y(x) = cot(x); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \sin \left (x \right ) c_2 +\cos \left (x \right ) c_1 +\sin \left (x \right ) \ln \left (\csc \left (x \right )-\cot \left (x \right )\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.027 (sec). Leaf size: 33

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to c_1 \cos (x)+\sin (x) \left (\log \left (\sin \left (\frac {x}{2}\right )\right )-\log \left (\cos \left (\frac {x}{2}\right )\right )+c_2\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.195 (sec). Leaf size: 29

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(y(x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 1/tan(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

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