18.15 problem 21

Internal problem ID [14842]

Book: INTRODUCTORY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Martha L. Abell, James P. Braselton. Fourth edition 2014. ElScAe. 2014
Section: Chapter 4. Higher Order Equations. Chapter 4 review exercises, page 219
Problem number: 21.
ODE order: 3.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {2 y^{\prime \prime \prime }+3 y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime }=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 18

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.033 (sec). Leaf size: 28

DSolve[2*y'''[x]+3*y''[x]+y'[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

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