87.12.31 problem 34

Internal problem ID [23479]
Book : Ordinary differential equations with modern applications. Ladas, G. E. and Finizio, N. Wadsworth Publishing. California. 1978. ISBN 0-534-00552-7. QA372.F56
Section : Chapter 2. Linear differential equations. Exercise at page 93
Problem number : 34
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:42:15 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} 4 y^{\prime \prime }+8 y^{\prime }+4 y&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 14

ode:=4*diff(diff(y(t),t),t)+8*diff(y(t),t)+4*y(t) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(t), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{-t} \left (c_2 t +c_1 \right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.009 (sec). Leaf size: 18

ode=4*D[y[t],{t,2}]+8*D[y[t],t]+4*y[t]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

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

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.089 (sec). Leaf size: 10

from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(4*y(t) + 8*Derivative(y(t), t) + 4*Derivative(y(t), (t, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(t),ics=ics)
 

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