10.3 problem 3

Internal problem ID [12762]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section: Chapter 4. N-th Order Linear Differential Equations. Exercises 4.3, page 210
Problem number: 3.
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-16 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 29

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)-16*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = {\mathrm e}^{2 x} c_{1} +{\mathrm e}^{-2 x} c_{2} +c_{3} \sin \left (2 x \right )+c_{4} \cos \left (2 x \right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 36

DSolve[y''''[x]-16*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 e^{2 x}+c_3 e^{-2 x}+c_2 \cos (2 x)+c_4 \sin (2 x) \]