49.7.5 problem 4(f)

Internal problem ID [7644]
Book : An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY 1961
Section : Chapter 2. Linear equations with constant coefficients. Page 74
Problem number : 4(f)
Date solved : Monday, January 27, 2025 at 03:08:56 PM
CAS classification : [[_high_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }+5 y^{\prime \prime }+4 y&=0 \end{align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 29

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)+5*diff(y(x),x$2)+4*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 
\[ y = 2 c_4 \cos \left (x \right )^{2}+\left (2 c_3 \sin \left (x \right )+c_{2} \right ) \cos \left (x \right )+\sin \left (x \right ) c_{1} -c_4 \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 30

DSolve[D[y[x],{x,4}]+5*D[y[x],{x,2}]+4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \cos (2 x)+c_4 \sin (x)+\cos (x) (2 c_2 \sin (x)+c_3) \]