57.19.6 problem 1(f)

Internal problem ID [14501]
Book : A First Course in Differential Equations by J. David Logan. Third Edition. Springer-Verlag, NY. 2015.
Section : Chapter 4, Linear Systems. Exercises page 202
Problem number : 1(f)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:37:54 AM
CAS classification : system_of_ODEs

\begin{align*} x^{\prime }&=-6 y \left (t \right )\\ y^{\prime }\left (t \right )&=6 y \left (t \right ) \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.127 (sec). Leaf size: 22
ode:=[diff(x(t),t) = -6*y(t), diff(y(t),t) = 6*y(t)]; 
dsolve(ode);
 
\begin{align*} x \left (t \right ) &= -c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{6 t}+c_1 \\ y \left (t \right ) &= c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{6 t} \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 30
ode={D[x[t],t]==-6*y[t],D[y[t],t]==6*y[t]}; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},{x[t],y[t]},t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} x(t)&\to -c_2 e^{6 t}+c_1+c_2\\ y(t)&\to c_2 e^{6 t} \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.033 (sec). Leaf size: 19
from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x = Function("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode=[Eq(6*y(t) + Derivative(x(t), t),0),Eq(-6*y(t) + Derivative(y(t), t),0)] 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=[x(t),y(t)],ics=ics)
 
\[ \left [ x{\left (t \right )} = C_{1} - C_{2} e^{6 t}, \ y{\left (t \right )} = C_{2} e^{6 t}\right ] \]