Internal problem ID [4588]
Book: Ordinary Differential Equations, By Tenenbaum and Pollard. Dover, NY 1963
Section: Chapter 4. Higher order linear differential equations. Lesson 20. Constant
coefficients
Problem number: Exercise 20.18, page 220.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_high_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }+3 y^{\prime \prime \prime }=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 20
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)+3*diff(y(x),x$3)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} +c_{2} x +c_{3} x^{2}+c_{4} {\mathrm e}^{-3 x} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.026 (sec). Leaf size: 28
DSolve[y''''[x]+3*y'''[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to -\frac {1}{27} c_1 e^{-3 x}+x (c_4 x+c_3)+c_2 \]