16.30 problem 503

Internal problem ID [15273]

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 15.3 Nonhomogeneous linear equations with constant coefficients. Trial and error method. Exercises page 132
Problem number: 503.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_high_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }+4 y^{\prime \prime }+4 y=\cos \left (x \right )} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 31

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)+4*diff(y(x),x$2)+4*y(x)=cos(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (c_{3} x +c_{1} \right ) \cos \left (\sqrt {2}\, x \right )+\left (c_{4} x +c_{2} \right ) \sin \left (\sqrt {2}\, x \right )+\cos \left (x \right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.288 (sec). Leaf size: 40

DSolve[y''''[x]+4*y''[x]+4*y[x]==Cos[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \cos (x)+(c_2 x+c_1) \cos \left (\sqrt {2} x\right )+(c_4 x+c_3) \sin \left (\sqrt {2} x\right ) \]