14.18 problem 18

Internal problem ID [1309]

Book: Elementary differential equations with boundary value problems. William F. Trench. Brooks/Cole 2001
Section: Chapter 7 Series Solutions of Linear Second Equations. 7.5 THE METHOD OF FROBENIUS I. Exercises 7.5. Page 358
Problem number: 18.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {2 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-y^{\prime } x +\left (1-2 x \right ) 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: 45

Order:=6; 
dsolve(2*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-x*diff(y(x),x)+(1-2*x)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} \sqrt {x}\, \left (1+2 x +\frac {2}{3} x^{2}+\frac {4}{45} x^{3}+\frac {2}{315} x^{4}+\frac {4}{14175} x^{5}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+c_{2} x \left (1+\frac {2}{3} x +\frac {2}{15} x^{2}+\frac {4}{315} x^{3}+\frac {2}{2835} x^{4}+\frac {4}{155925} x^{5}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 84

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

\[ y(x)\to c_1 x \left (\frac {4 x^5}{155925}+\frac {2 x^4}{2835}+\frac {4 x^3}{315}+\frac {2 x^2}{15}+\frac {2 x}{3}+1\right )+c_2 \sqrt {x} \left (\frac {4 x^5}{14175}+\frac {2 x^4}{315}+\frac {4 x^3}{45}+\frac {2 x^2}{3}+2 x+1\right ) \]