85.45.2 problem 2 (b)

Internal problem ID [22785]
Book : Applied Differential Equations. By Murray R. Spiegel. 3rd edition. 1980. Pearson. ISBN 978-0130400970
Section : Chapter 4. Linear differential equations. A Exercises at page 180
Problem number : 2 (b)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:14:38 PM
CAS classification : [[_3rd_order, _missing_x]]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 35

ode:=diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x)-y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = c_1 \,{\mathrm e}^{x}+c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x}{2}} \sin \left (\frac {\sqrt {3}\, x}{2}\right )+c_3 \,{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x}{2}} \cos \left (\frac {\sqrt {3}\, x}{2}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 52

ode=D[y[x],{x,3}]-y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to e^{-x/2} \left (c_1 e^{3 x/2}+c_2 \cos \left (\frac {\sqrt {3} x}{2}\right )+c_3 \sin \left (\frac {\sqrt {3} x}{2}\right )\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.084 (sec). Leaf size: 36

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

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