Internal problem ID [5594]
Book: Differential Equations: Theory, Technique, and Practice by George Simmons, Steven Krantz.
McGraw-Hill NY. 2007. 1st Edition.
Section: Chapter 2. Second-Order Linear Equations. Section 2.4. THE USE OF A KNOWN
SOLUTION TO FIND ANOTHER. Page 74
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 y^{\prime \prime }-\left (2 x +1\right ) y^{\prime }+\left (1+x \right ) y=0} \end {gather*} Given that one solution of the ode is \begin {align*} y_1 &= {\mathrm e}^{x} \end {align*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 16
dsolve([x*diff(y(x),x$2)-(2*x+1)*diff(y(x),x)+(x+1)*y(x)=0,exp(x)],y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{x}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{x} x^{2} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 23
DSolve[x*y''[x]-(2*x+1)*y'[x]+(x+1)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {1}{2} e^x \left (c_2 x^2+2 c_1\right ) \\ \end{align*}