84.21.1 problem 13.1

Internal problem ID [22227]
Book : Schaums outline series. Differential Equations By Richard Bronson. 1973. McGraw-Hill Inc. ISBN 0-07-008009-7
Section : Chapter 13. nth Order linear homogeneous differential equations with constant coefficients. Solved problems. Page 67
Problem number : 13.1
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 08:36:27 PM
CAS classification : [[_3rd_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime \prime }-6 y^{\prime \prime }+11 y^{\prime }-6 y&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 19

ode:=diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x)-6*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+11*diff(y(x),x)-6*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{x} \left (c_1 +c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{2 x}+c_3 \,{\mathrm e}^{x}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 25

ode=D[y[x],{x,3}]-6*D[y[x],{x,2}]+11*D[y[x],x]-6*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to e^x \left (e^x \left (c_3 e^x+c_2\right )+c_1\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.102 (sec). Leaf size: 19

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-6*y(x) + 11*Derivative(y(x), x) - 6*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 3)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

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