1.18 problem 16

Internal problem ID [5814]

Book: DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS with Boundary Value Problems. DENNIS G. ZILL, WARREN S. WRIGHT, MICHAEL R. CULLEN. Brooks/Cole. Boston, MA. 2013. 8th edition.
Section: CHAPTER 6 SERIES SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS. Section 6.2 SOLUTIONS ABOUT ORDINARY POINTS. EXERCISES 6.2. Page 246
Problem number: 16.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {\left (x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-6 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: 30

Order:=8; 
dsolve((x^2+1)*diff(y(x),x$2)-6*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 32

AsymptoticDSolveValue[(x^2+1)*y''[x]-6*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (x^3+x\right )+c_1 \left (-\frac {x^6}{5}+x^4+3 x^2+1\right ) \]