10.19.4 problem 4

Internal problem ID [1445]
Book : Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and DiPrima
Section : Chapter 9.1, The Phase Plane: Linear Systems. page 505
Problem number : 4
Date solved : Saturday, March 29, 2025 at 10:55:25 PM
CAS classification : system_of_ODEs

\begin{align*} \frac {d}{d t}x_{1} \left (t \right )&=x_{1} \left (t \right )-4 x_{2} \left (t \right )\\ \frac {d}{d t}x_{2} \left (t \right )&=4 x_{1} \left (t \right )-7 x_{2} \left (t \right ) \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.118 (sec). Leaf size: 34

ode:=[diff(x__1(t),t) = x__1(t)-4*x__2(t), diff(x__2(t),t) = 4*x__1(t)-7*x__2(t)]; 
dsolve(ode);
 

\begin{align*} x_{1} \left (t \right ) &= {\mathrm e}^{-3 t} \left (c_2 t +c_1 \right ) \\ x_{2} \left (t \right ) &= \frac {{\mathrm e}^{-3 t} \left (4 c_2 t +4 c_1 -c_2 \right )}{4} \\ \end{align*}

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 46

ode={D[ x1[t],t]==1*x1[t]-4*x2[t],D[ x2[t],t]==4*x1[t]-7*x2[t]}; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},{x1[t],x2[t]},t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} \text {x1}(t)\to e^{-3 t} (4 c_1 t-4 c_2 t+c_1) \\ \text {x2}(t)\to e^{-3 t} (4 (c_1-c_2) t+c_2) \\ \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.089 (sec). Leaf size: 42

from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x__1 = Function("x__1") 
x__2 = Function("x__2") 
ode=[Eq(-x__1(t) + 4*x__2(t) + Derivative(x__1(t), t),0),Eq(-4*x__1(t) + 7*x__2(t) + Derivative(x__2(t), t),0)] 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=[x__1(t),x__2(t)],ics=ics)
 

\[ \left [ x^{1}{\left (t \right )} = 4 C_{1} t e^{- 3 t} + \left (C_{1} + 4 C_{2}\right ) e^{- 3 t}, \ x^{2}{\left (t \right )} = 4 C_{1} t e^{- 3 t} + 4 C_{2} e^{- 3 t}\right ] \]