3.7 problem 8

Internal problem ID [4194]

Book: A treatise on ordinary and partial differential equations by William Woolsey Johnson. 1913
Section: Chapter VII, Solutions in series. Examples XIV. page 177
Problem number: 8.
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 }+\left (2 x^{2}+x \right ) y^{\prime }-4 y=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.063 (sec). Leaf size: 45

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

\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} x^{2} \left (1-\frac {4}{5} x +\frac {2}{5} x^{2}-\frac {16}{105} x^{3}+\frac {1}{21} x^{4}-\frac {4}{315} x^{5}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\frac {c_{2} \left (-144+192 x -96 x^{2}+32 x^{4}-\frac {128}{5} x^{5}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{x^{2}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.073 (sec). Leaf size: 208

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

\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_1 \left (\frac {2 x^2}{3}-\frac {4 x}{3}+1\right )}{x^2}+c_2 \left (-\frac {4 x^5}{315}+\frac {x^4}{21}-\frac {16 x^3}{105}+\frac {2 x^2}{5}-\frac {4 x}{5}+1\right ) x^2+\left (-\frac {4 x^5}{315}+\frac {x^4}{21}-\frac {16 x^3}{105}+\frac {2 x^2}{5}-\frac {4 x}{5}+1\right ) \left (\frac {7 x^6}{2430}+\frac {19 x^5}{2025}+\frac {5 x^4}{216}+\frac {2 x^3}{45}+\frac {x^2}{18}-\frac {1}{4 x^2}-\frac {1}{3 x}\right ) x^2+\frac {\left (\frac {2 x^2}{3}-\frac {4 x}{3}+1\right ) \left (-\frac {x^6}{84}-\frac {4 x^5}{105}-\frac {x^4}{10}-\frac {x^3}{5}-\frac {x^2}{4}\right )}{x^2} \]