9.3 problem 1(c)

Internal problem ID [5231]

Book: An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY 1961
Section: Chapter 2. Linear equations with constant coefficients. Page 83
Problem number: 1(c).
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.

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

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 23

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)-y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = {\mathrm e}^{-x} c_{1}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{x}+c_{3} \sin \relax (x )+c_{4} \cos \relax (x ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 30

DSolve[y''''[x]-y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 e^x+c_3 e^{-x}+c_2 \cos (x)+c_4 \sin (x) \\ \end{align*}