4.23 problem 26

Internal problem ID [6186]

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: 26.
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*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(2*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-3*x*diff(y(x),x)+2*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 20

DSolve[2*x^2*y''[x]-3*x*y'[x]+2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_2 x^2+c_1 \sqrt {x} \\ \end{align*}