3.7 problem 14

Internal problem ID [839]

Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 11th ed., Boyce, DiPrima, Meade
Section: Chapter 6.2, The Laplace Transform. Solution of Initial Value Problems. page 255
Problem number: 14.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-4 y=0} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \left (0\right ) = 1, y^{\prime }\left (0\right ) = 0, y^{\prime \prime }\left (0\right ) = 1, y^{\prime \prime \prime }\left (0\right ) = 0] \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.516 (sec). Leaf size: 21

dsolve([diff(y(t),t$4)-4*y(t)=0,y(0) = 1, D(y)(0) = 0, (D@@2)(y)(0) = 1, (D@@3)(y)(0) = 0],y(t), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (t \right ) = \frac {\cos \left (t \sqrt {2}\right )}{4}+\frac {3 \cosh \left (t \sqrt {2}\right )}{4} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 43

DSolve[{y''''[t]-4*y[t]==0,{y[0]==1,y'[0]==0,y''[0]==1,y'''[0]==0}},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(t)\to \frac {1}{8} \left (3 e^{-\sqrt {2} t}+3 e^{\sqrt {2} t}+2 \cos \left (\sqrt {2} t\right )\right ) \]