9.14 problem 14

Internal problem ID [6263]

Book: Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th edition. 1997.
Section: CHAPTER 18. Power series solutions. Miscellaneous Exercises. page 394
Problem number: 14.
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 }+x \left (x^{2}-3\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: 57

Order:=8; 
dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*(x^2-3)*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \left (\left (\ln \relax (x ) c_{2}+c_{1}\right ) \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}+\frac {1}{8} x^{4}-\frac {1}{48} x^{6}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right )+\left (\frac {1}{4} x^{2}-\frac {3}{32} x^{4}+\frac {11}{576} x^{6}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right ) c_{2}\right ) x^{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 92

AsymptoticDSolveValue[x^2*y''[x]+x*(x^2-3)*y'[x]+4*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (-\frac {x^6}{48}+\frac {x^4}{8}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right ) x^2+c_2 \left (\left (\frac {11 x^6}{576}-\frac {3 x^4}{32}+\frac {x^2}{4}\right ) x^2+\left (-\frac {x^6}{48}+\frac {x^4}{8}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right ) x^2 \log (x)\right ) \]