56.29.5 problem Ex 6

Internal problem ID [14237]
Book : An elementary treatise on differential equations by Abraham Cohen. DC heath publishers. 1906
Section : Chapter VII, Linear differential equations with constant coefficients. Article 52. Summary. Page 117
Problem number : Ex 6
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:27:02 AM
CAS classification : [[_high_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-2 y^{\prime \prime }+y&=\cos \left (x \right ) \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 27

ode:=diff(diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x),x)-2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+y(x) = cos(x); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {\cos \left (x \right )}{4}+\left (c_4 x +c_2 \right ) {\mathrm e}^{-x}+\left (c_3 x +c_1 \right ) {\mathrm e}^{x} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.053 (sec). Leaf size: 42

ode=D[y[x],{x,4}]-2*D[y[x],{x,2}]+y[x]==Cos[x]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {\cos (x)}{4}+e^{-x} \left (c_2 x+c_3 e^{2 x}+c_4 e^{2 x} x+c_1\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.061 (sec). Leaf size: 24

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(y(x) - cos(x) - 2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 4)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

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