11.1.5 problem 10

Internal problem ID [1466]
Book : Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 11th ed., Boyce, DiPrima, Meade
Section : Chapter 4.1, Higher order linear differential equations. General theory. page 173
Problem number : 10
Date solved : Tuesday, March 04, 2025 at 12:36:24 PM
CAS classification : [[_3rd_order, _missing_y]]

\begin{align*} x y^{\prime \prime \prime }-y^{\prime \prime }&=0 \end{align*}

Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 14
ode:=x*diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x)-diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = c_3 \,x^{3}+c_2 x +c_1 \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.023 (sec). Leaf size: 21
ode=x*D[y[x],{x,3}]-D[y[x],{x,2}]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_1 x^3}{6}+c_3 x+c_2 \]
Sympy. Time used: 0.064 (sec). Leaf size: 12
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x*Derivative(y(x), (x, 3)) - Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} + C_{2} x + C_{3} x^{3} \]