2.26 problem 26

Internal problem ID [4828]

Book: A FIRST COURSE IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS with Modeling Applications. Dennis G. Zill. 9th edition. Brooks/Cole. CA, USA.
Section: Chapter 6. SERIES SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS. Exercises. 6.2 page 239
Problem number: 26.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+x y^{\prime }+\left (x^{2}-\frac {1}{4}\right ) y=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.078 (sec). Leaf size: 35

Order:=6; 
dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)+(x^2-1/4)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {c_{1} x \left (1-\frac {1}{6} x^{2}+\frac {1}{120} x^{4}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+c_{2} \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}+\frac {1}{24} x^{4}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 58

AsymptoticDSolveValue[x^2*y''[x]+x*y'[x]+(x^2-1/4)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {x^{7/2}}{24}-\frac {x^{3/2}}{2}+\frac {1}{\sqrt {x}}\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {x^{9/2}}{120}-\frac {x^{5/2}}{6}+\sqrt {x}\right ) \]