3.4 problem 4

Internal problem ID [6139]

Book: Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th edition. 1997.
Section: CHAPTER 17. Power series solutions. 17.5. Solutions Near an Ordinary Point. Exercises page 355
Problem number: 4.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {\left (4 x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-8 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: 34

Order:=8; 
dsolve((1+4*x^2)*diff(y(x),x$2)-8*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \left (4 x^{2}+1\right ) y \relax (0)+\left (x +\frac {4}{3} x^{3}-\frac {16}{15} x^{5}+\frac {64}{35} x^{7}\right ) D\relax (y )\relax (0)+O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 40

AsymptoticDSolveValue[(1+4*x^2)*y''[x]-8*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (4 x^2+1\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {64 x^7}{35}-\frac {16 x^5}{15}+\frac {4 x^3}{3}+x\right ) \]