13.18 problem 24

Internal problem ID [728]

Book: Elementary differential equations and boundary value problems, 10th ed., Boyce and DiPrima
Section: Chapter 5.2, Series Solutions Near an Ordinary Point, Part I. page 263
Problem number: 24.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {\left (x^{2}+2\right ) 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([(2+x^2)*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);
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 17

AsymptoticDSolveValue[{(2+x^2)*y''[x]-x*y'[x]+4*y[x]==0,{y[0]==1,y'[0]==0}},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {x^4}{6}-x^2+1 \]