4.37 problem 1485

Internal problem ID [9812]

Book: Differential Gleichungen, E. Kamke, 3rd ed. Chelsea Pub. NY, 1948
Section: Chapter 3, linear third order
Problem number: 1485.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_3rd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

\[ \boxed {\left (x -2\right ) x y^{\prime \prime \prime }-\left (x -2\right ) x y^{\prime \prime }-2 y^{\prime }+2 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 51

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{3} \operatorname {expIntegral}_{1}\left (x -2\right ) {\mathrm e}^{x -2}+\frac {c_{3} x^{2} \ln \left (x -2\right )}{4}+{\mathrm e}^{x} c_{2} -\frac {c_{3} x^{2} \ln \left (x \right )}{4}+\frac {\left (2 x +2\right ) c_{3}}{4}+c_{1} x^{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.192 (sec). Leaf size: 59

DSolve[2*y[x] - 2*y'[x] - (-2 + x)*x*y''[x] + (-2 + x)*x*Derivative[3][y][x] == 0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{4} c_3 \left (-4 e^{x-2} \operatorname {ExpIntegralEi}(2-x)+x^2 \log (2-x)-x^2 \log (x)+2 x+2\right )+c_1 x^2+c_2 e^x \]