Internal problem ID [4712]
Book: Schaums Outline Differential Equations, 4th edition. Bronson and Costa. McGraw Hill
2014
Section: Chapter 27. Power series solutions of linear DE with variable coefficients. Supplementary
Problems. page 274
Problem number: Problem 27.38.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]
Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime } x^{2}+2 y x=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 24
Order:=6; dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+x^2*diff(y(x),x)+2*x*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \relax (x ) = \left (1-\frac {x^{3}}{3}\right ) y \relax (0)+\left (x -\frac {1}{4} x^{4}\right ) D\relax (y )\relax (0)+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 28
AsymptoticDSolveValue[y''[x]+x^2*y'[x]+2*x*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (x-\frac {x^4}{4}\right )+c_1 \left (1-\frac {x^3}{3}\right ) \]