12.1 problem Problem 7

Internal problem ID [2315]

Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section: Chapter 8, Linear differential equations of order n. Section 8.10, Chapter review. page 575
Problem number: Problem 7.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_3rd_order, _missing_x]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime }+3 y^{\prime \prime }-4 y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 22

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$3)+3*diff(y(x),x$2)-4*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = {\mathrm e}^{x} c_{1}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-2 x}+c_{3} {\mathrm e}^{-2 x} x \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 25

DSolve[y'''[x]+3*y''[x]-4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to e^{-2 x} (c_2 x+c_1)+c_3 e^x \\ \end{align*}