69.16.23 problem 496

Internal problem ID [18283]
Book : A book of problems in ordinary differential equations. M.L. KRASNOV, A.L. KISELYOV, G.I. MARKARENKO. MIR, MOSCOW. 1983
Section : Chapter 2 (Higher order ODEs). Section 15.3 Nonhomogeneous linear equations with constant coefficients. Trial and error method. Exercises page 132
Problem number : 496
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 03:10:06 PM
CAS classification : [[_high_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }-y^{\prime \prime }&=3 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 24
ode:=diff(diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x),x)-diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = 3; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{x} c_2 -\frac {3 x^{2}}{2}+{\mathrm e}^{-x} c_1 +c_3 x +c_4 \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.023 (sec). Leaf size: 33
ode=D[y[x],{x,4}]-D[y[x],{x,2}]==3; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to -\frac {3 x^2}{2}+c_4 x+c_1 e^x+c_2 e^{-x}+c_3 \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.051 (sec). Leaf size: 24
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 4)) - 3,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} + C_{2} x + C_{3} e^{- x} + C_{4} e^{x} - \frac {3 x^{2}}{2} \]