17.26 problem 26

Internal problem ID [13504]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section: Chapter 25. Review exercises for part III. page 447
Problem number: 26.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-16 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 29

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)-16*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 36

DSolve[y''''[x]-16*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 e^{2 x}+c_3 e^{-2 x}+c_2 \cos (2 x)+c_4 \sin (2 x) \]