87.21.30 problem 30

Internal problem ID [23744]
Book : Ordinary differential equations with modern applications. Ladas, G. E. and Finizio, N. Wadsworth Publishing. California. 1978. ISBN 0-534-00552-7. QA372.F56
Section : Chapter 3. Linear Systems. Exercise at page 178
Problem number : 30
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:44:49 PM
CAS classification : system_of_ODEs

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

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} x \left (0\right )&=1 \\ y \left (0\right )&=1 \\ z \left (0\right )&=1 \\ \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.093 (sec). Leaf size: 16
ode:=[diff(x(t),t) = y(t), diff(y(t),t) = z(t), diff(z(t),t) = x(t)]; 
ic:=[x(0) = 1, y(0) = 1, z(0) = 1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)]);
 
\begin{align*} x \left (t \right ) &= {\mathrm e}^{t} \\ y \left (t \right ) &= {\mathrm e}^{t} \\ z \left (t \right ) &= {\mathrm e}^{t} \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 0.019 (sec). Leaf size: 20
ode={D[x[t],t]==y[t],D[y[t],t]==z[t],D[z[t],t]==x[t]}; 
ic={x[0]==1,y[0]==1,z[0]==1}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},{x[t],y[t],z[t]},t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} x(t)&\to e^t\\ y(t)&\to e^t\\ z(t)&\to e^t \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.102 (sec). Leaf size: 37
from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x = Function("x") 
y = Function("y") 
z = Function("z") 
ode=[Eq(-7*x(t) - 4*y(t) + 4*z(t) + Derivative(x(t), t),0),Eq(-4*x(t) + 8*y(t) + z(t) + Derivative(y(t), t),0),Eq(4*x(t) + y(t) + 8*z(t) + Derivative(z(t), t),0)] 
ics = {x(0): 3, y(0): 5, z(0): -1} 
dsolve(ode,func=[x(t),y(t),z(t)],ics=ics)
 
\[ \left [ x{\left (t \right )} = 4 e^{9 t} - e^{- 9 t}, \ y{\left (t \right )} = e^{9 t} + 4 e^{- 9 t}, \ z{\left (t \right )} = - e^{9 t}\right ] \]