10.15 problem 15

Internal problem ID [11745]

Book: Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section: Chapter 4, Section 4.2. The homogeneous linear equation with constant coefficients. Exercises page 135
Problem number: 15.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_3rd_order, _missing_x]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime }-6 y^{\prime \prime }+12 y^{\prime }-8 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 19

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$3)-6*diff(y(x),x$2)+12*diff(y(x),x)-8*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 23

DSolve[y'''[x]-6*y''[x]+12*y'[x]-8*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to e^{2 x} (x (c_3 x+c_2)+c_1) \]