67.10.17 problem 15.6 (d)

Internal problem ID [16599]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section : Chapter 15. General solutions to Homogeneous linear differential equations. Additional exercises page 294
Problem number : 15.6 (d)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 01:36:51 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+5 y^{\prime }&=0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=1 \\ y^{\prime }\left (0\right )&=0 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.022 (sec). Leaf size: 5

ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+5*diff(y(x),x) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 1, D(y)(0) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = 1 \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 6

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+5*D[y[x],x]==0; 
ic={y[0]==1,Derivative[1][y][0] ==0}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to 1 \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.089 (sec). Leaf size: 3

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(5*Derivative(y(x), x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {y(0): 1, Subs(Derivative(y(x), x), x, 0): 0} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = 1 \]