Internal problem ID [863]
Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 11th ed., Boyce, DiPrima,
Meade
Section: Chapter 6.5, The Laplace Transform. Impulse functions. page 273
Problem number: 8.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_high_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-y=\delta \left (-1+t \right )} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \left (0\right ) = 0, y^{\prime }\left (0\right ) = 0, y^{\prime \prime }\left (0\right ) = 0, y^{\prime \prime \prime }\left (0\right ) = 0] \end {align*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.406 (sec). Leaf size: 21
dsolve([diff(y(t),t$4)-y(t)=Dirac(t-1),y(0) = 0, D(y)(0) = 0, (D@@2)(y)(0) = 0, (D@@3)(y)(0) = 0],y(t), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (t \right ) = -\frac {\operatorname {Heaviside}\left (t -1\right ) \left (\sin \left (t -1\right )-\sinh \left (t -1\right )\right )}{2} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.11 (sec). Leaf size: 44
DSolve[{y''''[t]-y[t]==DiracDelta[t-1],{y[0]==0,y'[0]==0,y''[0]==0,y'''[0]==0}},y[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(t)\to \frac {1}{4} e^{-t-1} \theta (t-1) \left (e^{2 t}+2 e^{t+1} \sin (1-t)-e^2\right ) \]