2.17 problem 17

Internal problem ID [903]

Book: Elementary differential equations with boundary value problems. William F. Trench. Brooks/Cole 2001
Section: Chapter 2, First order equations. Linear first order. Section 2.1 Page 41
Problem number: 17.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_linear]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime }+\frac {4 y}{x -1}-\frac {1}{\left (x -1\right )^{5}}-\frac {\sin \relax (x )}{\left (x -1\right )^{4}}=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 20

dsolve(diff(y(x),x) +4/(x-1)*y(x)=1/(x-1)^5+sin(x)/(x-1)^4,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {-\cos \relax (x )+\ln \left (x -1\right )+c_{1}}{\left (x -1\right )^{4}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.076 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[y'[x] +4/(x-1)*y[x]==1/(x-1)^5+Sin[x]/(x-1)^4,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {\log (x-1)-\cos (x)+c_1}{(x-1)^4} \\ \end{align*}