70.13.27 problem 27

Internal problem ID [18896]
Book : Differential equations. An introduction to modern methods and applications. James Brannan, William E. Boyce. Third edition. Wiley 2015
Section : Chapter 4. Second order linear equations. Section 4.3 (Linear homogeneous equations with constant coefficients). Problems at page 239
Problem number : 27
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 03:32:35 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime }-2 y&=0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.030 (sec). Leaf size: 6

ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 1, D(y)(0) = 1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{x} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.009 (sec). Leaf size: 8

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

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

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.074 (sec). Leaf size: 5

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

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