84.22.6 problem 13.16

Internal problem ID [22241]
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. Supplementary problems
Problem number : 13.16
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 08:36:32 PM
CAS classification : [[_high_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} -y-2 y^{\prime }+2 y^{\prime \prime \prime }+y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }&=0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 24
ode:=diff(diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x),x)+2*diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x)-2*diff(y(x),x)-y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{-x} \left (c_4 \,x^{2}+c_3 x +c_2 \right )+c_1 \,{\mathrm e}^{x} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 32
ode=D[y[x],{x,4}]+2*D[y[x],{x,3}]-2*D[y[x],{x,1}]-y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to e^{-x} \left (c_3 x^2+c_2 x+c_4 e^{2 x}+c_1\right ) \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.106 (sec). Leaf size: 19
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-y(x) - 2*Derivative(y(x), x) + 2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 3)) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 4)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{4} e^{x} + \left (C_{1} + x \left (C_{2} + C_{3} x\right )\right ) e^{- x} \]