10.4 problem 4

Internal problem ID [2120]

Book: Differential Equations by Alfred L. Nelson, Karl W. Folley, Max Coral. 3rd ed. DC heath. Boston. 1964
Section: Exercise 18, page 82
Problem number: 4.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime }-3 y^{\prime \prime }+3 y^{\prime }-y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 17

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 21

DSolve[y'''[x]-3*y''[x]+3*y'[x]-y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^x (x (c_3 x+c_2)+c_1) \]