Internal problem ID [13641]
Book: Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell.
second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section: Chapter 19. Arbitrary Homogeneous linear equations with constant coefficients.
Additional exercises page 369
Problem number: 19.4 (i).
ODE order: 4.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_high_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-4 y^{\prime \prime \prime }+16 y^{\prime }-16 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 26
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$4)-4*diff(y(x),x$3)+16*diff(y(x),x)-16*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (c_{4} x^{2}+c_{3} x +c_{2} \right ) {\mathrm e}^{2 x}+{\mathrm e}^{-2 x} c_{1} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 32
DSolve[y''''[x]-4*y'''[x]+16*y'[x]-16*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to e^{-2 x} \left (e^{4 x} (x (c_4 x+c_3)+c_2)+c_1\right ) \]