15.57 problem 58

Internal problem ID [1405]

Book: Elementary differential equations with boundary value problems. William F. Trench. Brooks/Cole 2001
Section: Chapter 7 Series Solutions of Linear Second Equations. 7.6 THE METHOD OF FROBENIUS II. Exercises 7.6. Page 374
Problem number: 58.
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 +1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+8 y^{\prime } x^{2}+\left (x +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: 49

Order:=6; 
dsolve(4*x^2*(1+x)*diff(y(x),x$2)+8*x^2*diff(y(x),x)+(1+x)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \sqrt {x}\, \left (-x^{5}+x^{4}-x^{3}+x^{2}-x +1\right ) \left (c_{2} \ln \relax (x )+c_{1}\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 64

AsymptoticDSolveValue[4*x^2*(1+x)*y''[x]+8*x^2*y'[x]+(1+x)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \sqrt {x} \left (-x^5+x^4-x^3+x^2-x+1\right )+c_2 \sqrt {x} \left (-x^5+x^4-x^3+x^2-x+1\right ) \log (x) \]