15.16 problem 447

Internal problem ID [15237]

Book: A book of problems in ordinary differential equations. M.L. KRASNOV, A.L. KISELYOV, G.I. MARKARENKO. MIR, MOSCOW. 1983
Section: Chapter 2 (Higher order ODE’s). Section 15.2 Homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients. Exercises page 121
Problem number: 447.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime \prime }-y^{\prime }-2 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

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

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 28

DSolve[y'''[x]+2*y''[x]-y'[x]-2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{-2 x} \left (c_2 e^x+c_3 e^{3 x}+c_1\right ) \]