2.25 problem Problem 34

Internal problem ID [10840]

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 34.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_3rd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime }-y-{\mathrm e}^{x}=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 40

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$3)-y(x)=exp(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {x \,{\mathrm e}^{x}}{3}+c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x}{2}} \cos \left (\frac {\sqrt {3}\, x}{2}\right )+c_{3} {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x}{2}} \sin \left (\frac {\sqrt {3}\, x}{2}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.332 (sec). Leaf size: 57

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {1}{3} e^x (x-1+3 c_1)+e^{-x/2} \left (c_2 \cos \left (\frac {\sqrt {3} x}{2}\right )+c_3 \sin \left (\frac {\sqrt {3} x}{2}\right )\right ) \\ \end{align*}