2.14 problem Problem 14

Internal problem ID [10829]

Book: Differential equations and the calculus of variations by L. ElSGOLTS. MIR PUBLISHERS, MOSCOW, Third printing 1977.
Section: Chapter 2, DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF THE SECOND ORDER AND HIGHER. Problems page 172
Problem number: Problem 14.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {x^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-2 x^{\prime \prime }+x-t^{2}+3=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 31

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

\[ x \left (t \right ) = t^{2}+1+{\mathrm e}^{t} c_{1} +{\mathrm e}^{-t} c_{2} +c_{3} {\mathrm e}^{t} t +c_{4} t \,{\mathrm e}^{-t} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 34

DSolve[x''''[t]-2*x''[t]+x[t]==t^2-3,x[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} x(t)\to t^2+e^{-t} (c_2 t+c_1)+e^t (c_4 t+c_3)+1 \\ \end{align*}