69.22.6 problem 711

Internal problem ID [18472]
Book : A book of problems in ordinary differential equations. M.L. KRASNOV, A.L. KISELYOV, G.I. MARKARENKO. MIR, MOSCOW. 1983
Section : Chapter 2 (Higher order ODEs). Section 17. Boundary value problems. Exercises page 163
Problem number : 711
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 03:13:56 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

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

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=0 \\ y \left (\frac {\pi }{2}\right )&=\alpha \\ \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.033 (sec). Leaf size: 8
ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+y(x) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 0, y(1/2*Pi) = alpha]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = \alpha \sin \left (x \right ) \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.022 (sec). Leaf size: 9
ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+y[x]==0; 
ic={y[0]==0,y[Pi/2]==\[Alpha]}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \alpha \sin (x) \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.027 (sec). Leaf size: 7
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(y(x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {y(0): 0, y(pi/2): alpha} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \alpha \sin {\left (x \right )} \]