Internal problem ID [822]
Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 11th ed., Boyce, DiPrima,
Meade
Section: Chapter 4.2, Higher order linear differential equations. Constant coefficients. page
180
Problem number: 8.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_3rd_order, _missing_x]]
Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime }-y^{\prime \prime }-y^{\prime }+y=0} \end {gather*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 20
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$3)-diff(y(x),x$2)-diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \relax (x ) = {\mathrm e}^{-x} c_{1}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{x}+c_{3} {\mathrm e}^{x} x \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 25
DSolve[y'''[x]-y''[x]-y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 e^{-x}+e^x (c_3 x+c_2) \\ \end{align*}