66.11.1 problem 3

Internal problem ID [16121]
Book : DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS by Paul Blanchard, Robert L. Devaney, Glen R. Hall. 4th edition. Brooks/Cole. Boston, USA. 2012
Section : Chapter 3. Linear Systems. Exercises section 3.4 page 310
Problem number : 3
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 10:42:40 AM
CAS classification : system_of_ODEs

\begin{align*} x^{\prime }\left (t \right )&=2 y\\ y^{\prime }&=-2 x \left (t \right ) \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} x \left (0\right )&=1 \\ y \left (0\right )&=0 \\ \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.145 (sec). Leaf size: 17
ode:=[diff(x(t),t) = 2*y(t), diff(y(t),t) = -2*x(t)]; 
ic:=[x(0) = 1, y(0) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)]);
 
\begin{align*} x \left (t \right ) &= \cos \left (2 t \right ) \\ y \left (t \right ) &= -\sin \left (2 t \right ) \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 18
ode={D[x[t],t]==2*y[t],D[y[t],t]==-2*x[t]}; 
ic={x[0]==1,y[0]==0}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},{x[t],y[t]},t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} x(t)&\to \cos (2 t)\\ y(t)&\to -\sin (2 t) \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.035 (sec). Leaf size: 31
from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x = Function("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode=[Eq(-2*y(t) + Derivative(x(t), t),0),Eq(2*x(t) + Derivative(y(t), t),0)] 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=[x(t),y(t)],ics=ics)
 
\[ \left [ x{\left (t \right )} = C_{1} \sin {\left (2 t \right )} + C_{2} \cos {\left (2 t \right )}, \ y{\left (t \right )} = C_{1} \cos {\left (2 t \right )} - C_{2} \sin {\left (2 t \right )}\right ] \]