14.38 problem 40

Internal problem ID [1329]

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: 40.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {2 x^{2} \left (x^{2}+2\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+x \left (7 x^{2}+4\right ) y^{\prime }-\left (-3 x^{2}+1\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: 35

Order:=6; 
dsolve(2*x^2*(2+x^2)*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*(4+7*x^2)*diff(y(x),x)-(1-3*x^2)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {c_{1} x \left (1-\frac {1}{4} x^{2}+\frac {7}{80} x^{4}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+c_{2} \left (1-\frac {1}{8} x^{2}+\frac {5}{128} x^{4}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 58

AsymptoticDSolveValue[2*x^2*(2+x^2)*y''[x]+x*(4+7*x^2)*y'[x]-(1-3*x^2)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {5 x^{7/2}}{128}-\frac {x^{3/2}}{8}+\frac {1}{\sqrt {x}}\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {7 x^{9/2}}{80}-\frac {x^{5/2}}{4}+\sqrt {x}\right ) \]