4.2 problem 10

Internal problem ID [4863]

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. Chapter 6 review exercises. page 253
Problem number: 10.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 34

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

\[ y \relax (x ) = \left (1+\frac {1}{2} x^{2}+\frac {1}{8} x^{4}\right ) y \relax (0)+\left (x +\frac {1}{3} x^{3}+\frac {1}{15} x^{5}\right ) D\relax (y )\relax (0)+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 42

AsymptoticDSolveValue[y''[x]-x*y'[x]-y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (\frac {x^5}{15}+\frac {x^3}{3}+x\right )+c_1 \left (\frac {x^4}{8}+\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right ) \]