6.17 problem 21

Internal problem ID [4239]

Book: A treatise on ordinary and partial differential equations by William Woolsey Johnson. 1913
Section: Chapter IX, Special forms of differential equations. Examples XVII. page 247
Problem number: 21.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {x y^{\prime \prime }+3 y^{\prime }+4 x^{3} y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 23

dsolve(x*diff(y(x),x$2)+3*diff(y(x),x)+4*x^3*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {c_{1} \sin \left (x^{2}\right )}{x^{2}}+\frac {c_{2} \cos \left (x^{2}\right )}{x^{2}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.051 (sec). Leaf size: 41

DSolve[x*y''[x]+3*y'[x]+4*x^3*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {4 c_1 e^{-i x^2}-i c_2 e^{i x^2}}{4 x^2} \\ \end{align*}