2.11 problem 11

Internal problem ID [3252]

Book: Differential equations for engineers by Wei-Chau XIE, Cambridge Press 2010
Section: Chapter 4. Linear Differential Equations. Page 183
Problem number: 11.
ODE order: 5.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\left (5\right )}-6 y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }+9 y^{\prime \prime \prime }=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 24

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$5)-6*diff(y(x),x$4)+9*diff(y(x),x$3)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (c_{5} x +c_{4} \right ) {\mathrm e}^{3 x}+c_{3} x^{2}+c_{2} x +c_{1} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.143 (sec). Leaf size: 35

DSolve[y'''''[x]-6*y''''[x]+9*y'''[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{27} e^{3 x} (c_2 (x-1)+c_1)+x (c_5 x+c_4)+c_3 \]