Internal problem ID [3244]
Book: Differential equations for engineers by Wei-Chau XIE, Cambridge Press 2010
Section: Chapter 4. Linear Differential Equations. Page 183
Problem number: 3.
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]
\[ y(x)\to e^{-x} \left (c_2 x+c_3 e^{2 x}+c_1\right ) \]