Internal problem ID [2132]
Book: Differential Equations by Alfred L. Nelson, Karl W. Folley, Max Coral. 3rd ed. DC heath.
Boston. 1964
Section: Exercise 18, page 82
Problem number: 16.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_high_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-4 y^{\prime \prime \prime }+6 y^{\prime \prime }-8 y^{\prime }+8 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 34
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)-4*diff(y(x),x$3)+6*diff(y(x),x$2)-8*diff(y(x),x)+8*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{2 x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{2 x} x +c_{3} \sin \left (\sqrt {2}\, x \right )+c_{4} \cos \left (\sqrt {2}\, x \right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 41
DSolve[y''''[x]-4*y'''[x]+6*y''[x]-8*y'[x]+8*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to e^{2 x} (c_4 x+c_3)+c_1 \cos \left (\sqrt {2} x\right )+c_2 \sin \left (\sqrt {2} x\right ) \]