87.22.1 problem 1

Internal problem ID [23746]
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 4. The Laplace transform. Exercise at page 199
Problem number : 1
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:44:51 PM
CAS classification : [_quadrature]

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

Using Laplace method With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=1 \\ \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.040 (sec). Leaf size: 8
ode:=diff(y(t),t)+2*y(t) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 1]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(t),method='laplace');
 
\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{-2 t} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.077 (sec). Leaf size: 10
ode=D[y[t],t]+2*y[t]==0; 
ic={y[0]==1}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(t)&\to e^{-2 t} \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.093 (sec). Leaf size: 8
from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(2*y(t) + Derivative(y(t), t),0) 
ics = {y(0): 1} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(t),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (t \right )} = e^{- 2 t} \]