Internal problem ID [1135]
Book: Elementary differential equations with boundary value problems. William F. Trench.
Brooks/Cole 2001
Section: Chapter 5 linear second order equations. Section 5.6 Reduction or order. Page
253
Problem number: 29.
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 x \right ) y^{\prime \prime }+\left (-x^{2}+2\right ) y^{\prime }+\left (-2+2 x \right ) y=0} \end {gather*} Given that one solution of the ode is \begin {align*} y_1 &= {\mathrm e}^{x} \end {align*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 14
dsolve([(x^2-2*x)*diff(y(x),x$2)+(2-x^2)*diff(y(x),x)+(2*x-2)*y(x)=0,exp(x)],y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \relax (x ) = x^{2} c_{1}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{x} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.019 (sec). Leaf size: 18
DSolve[(x^2-2*x)*y''[x]+(2-x^2)*y'[x]+(2*x-2)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_2 x^2+c_1 e^x \\ \end{align*}