12.2 problem 19.1 (b)

Internal problem ID [13298]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section: Chapter 19. Arbitrary Homogeneous linear equations with constant coefficients. Additional exercises page 369
Problem number: 19.1 (b).
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.

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

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 21

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

\[ y = c_{1} +c_{2} x +c_{3} \sin \left (2 x \right )+c_{4} \cos \left (2 x \right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.077 (sec). Leaf size: 32

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

\[ y(x)\to c_4 x-\frac {1}{4} c_1 \cos (2 x)-\frac {1}{4} c_2 \sin (2 x)+c_3 \]