Internal problem ID [5974]
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(c).
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_3rd_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime }-5 y^{\prime \prime }+6 y^{\prime }=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 18
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$3)-5*diff(y(x),x$2)+6*diff(y(x),x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} +c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{2 x}+c_{3} {\mathrm e}^{3 x} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.033 (sec). Leaf size: 30
DSolve[y'''[x]-5*y''[x]+6*y'[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{2} c_1 e^{2 x}+\frac {1}{3} c_2 e^{3 x}+c_3 \]