68.10.41 problem 40 (d)

Internal problem ID [17533]
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 : 40 (d)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 02:25:10 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }-16 y&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 17

ode:=diff(diff(y(t),t),t)-16*y(t) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(t), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = c_1 \,{\mathrm e}^{4 t}+c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{-4 t} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.008 (sec). Leaf size: 22

ode=D[y[t],{t,2}]-16*y[t]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(t)&\to e^{-4 t} \left (c_1 e^{8 t}+c_2\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.032 (sec). Leaf size: 15

from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-16*y(t) + Derivative(y(t), (t, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(t),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (t \right )} = C_{1} e^{- 4 t} + C_{2} e^{4 t} \]