1.12 problem 24

Internal problem ID [4791]

Book: A FIRST COURSE IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS with Modeling Applications. Dennis G. Zill. 9th edition. Brooks/Cole. CA, USA.
Section: Chapter 6. SERIES SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS. Exercises. 6.1.2 page 230
Problem number: 24.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {\left (2+x \right ) y^{\prime \prime }+x y^{\prime }-y=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 29

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

\[ y \relax (x ) = \left (1+\frac {1}{4} x^{2}-\frac {1}{24} x^{3}+\frac {1}{480} x^{5}\right ) y \relax (0)+D\relax (y )\relax (0) x +O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 34

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

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {x^5}{480}-\frac {x^3}{24}+\frac {x^2}{4}+1\right )+c_2 x \]