84.21.6 problem 13.6

Internal problem ID [22232]
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 : 13.6
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 08:36:29 PM
CAS classification : [[_high_order, _missing_x]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }+8 y^{\prime \prime \prime }+24 y^{\prime \prime }+32 y^{\prime }+16 y&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 24

ode:=diff(diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x),x)+8*diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x)+24*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+32*diff(y(x),x)+16*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{-2 x} \left (c_4 \,x^{3}+c_3 \,x^{2}+c_2 x +c_1 \right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 28

ode=D[y[x],{x,4}]+8*D[y[x],{x,3}]+24*D[y[x],{x,2}]+32*D[y[x],{x,1}]+16*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

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

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.121 (sec). Leaf size: 19

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(16*y(x) + 32*Derivative(y(x), x) + 24*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + 8*Derivative(y(x), (x, 3)) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 4)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

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