10.6 problem 6

Internal problem ID [2122]

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: 6.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.

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

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 19

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 26

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

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