1.17 problem 29

Internal problem ID [4796]

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: 29.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {\left (x -1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-x y^{\prime }+y=0} \end {gather*} With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \relax (0) = -2, y^{\prime }\relax (0) = 6] \end {align*}

With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 20

Order:=6; 
dsolve([(x-1)*diff(y(x),x$2)-x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,y(0) = -2, D(y)(0) = 6],y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = -2+6 x -x^{2}-\frac {1}{3} x^{3}-\frac {1}{12} x^{4}-\frac {1}{60} x^{5}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

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

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

\[ y(x)\to -\frac {x^5}{60}-\frac {x^4}{12}-\frac {x^3}{3}-x^2+6 x-2 \]