68.10.32 problem 33

Internal problem ID [17524]
Book : INTRODUCTORY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Martha L. Abell, James P. Braselton. Fourth edition 2014. ElScAe. 2014
Section : Chapter 4. Higher Order Equations. Exercises 4.2, page 147
Problem number : 33
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 02:25:05 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} 6 y^{\prime \prime }+5 y^{\prime }+y&=0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 17
ode:=6*diff(diff(y(t),t),t)+5*diff(y(t),t)+y(t) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(t), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = c_1 \,{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {t}{3}}+c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {t}{2}} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.009 (sec). Leaf size: 26
ode=6*D[y[t],{t,2}]+5*D[y[t],t]+y[t]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(t)&\to e^{-t/2} \left (c_1 e^{t/6}+c_2\right ) \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.089 (sec). Leaf size: 15
from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(y(t) + 5*Derivative(y(t), t) + 6*Derivative(y(t), (t, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(t),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (t \right )} = C_{1} e^{- \frac {t}{2}} + C_{2} e^{- \frac {t}{3}} \]