16.18 problem Problem 19

Internal problem ID [2405]

Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section: Chapter 11, Series Solutions to Linear Differential Equations. Exercises for 11.2. page 739
Problem number: Problem 19.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_Lienard]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {4 y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime } x +4 y=0} \end {gather*} With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \relax (0) = 1, y^{\prime }\relax (0) = 0] \end {align*}

With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 14

Order:=6; 
dsolve([4*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=0,y(0) = 1, D(y)(0) = 0],y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = 1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}+\frac {1}{16} x^{4}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 19

AsymptoticDSolveValue[{4*y''[x]+x*y'[x]+4*y[x]==0,{y[0]==1,y'[0]==0}},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {x^4}{16}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1 \]