4.19 problem 20

Internal problem ID [6182]

Book: Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th edition. 1997.
Section: CHAPTER 18. Power series solutions. 18.4 Indicial Equation with Difference of Roots Nonintegral. Exercises page 365
Problem number: 20.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler], [_2nd_order, _linear, _with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {2 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-3 x y^{\prime }+2 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: 27

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

\[ y \relax (x ) = \sqrt {x}\, c_{1}+x^{2} c_{2}+O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 18

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

\[ y(x)\to c_1 x^2+c_2 \sqrt {x} \]