14.48 problem 50

Internal problem ID [1339]

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: 50.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {4 x^{2} \left (x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+4 x \left (6 x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime }-\left (-25 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(4*x^2*(1+x^2)*diff(y(x),x$2)+4*x*(1+6*x^2)*diff(y(x),x)-(1-25*x^2)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {c_{1} x \left (1-\frac {3}{2} x^{2}+\frac {15}{8} x^{4}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+c_{2} \left (1-2 x^{2}+\frac {8}{3} x^{4}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 56

AsymptoticDSolveValue[4*x^2*(1+x^2)*y''[x]+4*x*(1+6*x^2)*y'[x]-(1-25*x^2)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {8 x^{7/2}}{3}-2 x^{3/2}+\frac {1}{\sqrt {x}}\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {15 x^{9/2}}{8}-\frac {3 x^{5/2}}{2}+\sqrt {x}\right ) \]