12.8 problem 19.2 (b)

Internal problem ID [13304]

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: 19.2 (b).
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime }-6 y^{\prime \prime }+11 y^{\prime }-6 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

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

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$3)-6*diff(y(x),x$2)+11*diff(y(x),x)-6*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{2 x} c_{1} +{\mathrm e}^{x} c_{2} +c_{3} {\mathrm e}^{3 x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 25

DSolve[y'''[x]-6*y''[x]+11*y'[x]-6*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^x \left (e^x \left (c_3 e^x+c_2\right )+c_1\right ) \]