13.5 problem 5

Internal problem ID [5599]

Book: Differential Equations: Theory, Technique, and Practice by George Simmons, Steven Krantz. McGraw-Hill NY. 2007. 1st Edition.
Section: Chapter 2. Section 2.7. HIGHER ORDER LINEAR EQUATIONS, COUPLED HARMONIC OSCILLATORS Page 98
Problem number: 5.
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 }+3 y^{\prime }+y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 27

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

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

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

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