1.93 problem 140

Internal problem ID [12190]

Book: DIFFERENTIAL and INTEGRAL CALCULUS. VOL I. by N. PISKUNOV. MIR PUBLISHERS, Moscow 1969.
Section: Chapter 8. Differential equations. Exercises page 595
Problem number: 140.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-5 y^{\prime \prime }+4 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 27

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)-5*diff(y(x),x$2)+4*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 35

DSolve[y''''[x]-5*y''[x]+4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{-2 x} \left (c_2 e^x+e^{3 x} \left (c_4 e^x+c_3\right )+c_1\right ) \]