3.9 problem 10

Internal problem ID [4196]

Book: A treatise on ordinary and partial differential equations by William Woolsey Johnson. 1913
Section: Chapter VII, Solutions in series. Examples XIV. page 177
Problem number: 10.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {\left (4 x^{3}-14 x^{2}-2 x \right ) y^{\prime \prime }-\left (6 x^{2}-7 x +1\right ) y^{\prime }+\left (-1+6 x \right ) y=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.023 (sec). Leaf size: 28

Order:=6; 
dsolve((4*x^3-14*x^2-2*x)*diff(y(x),x$2)-(6*x^2-7*x+1)*diff(y(x),x)+(6*x-1)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 25

AsymptoticDSolveValue[(4*x^3-14*x^2-2*x)*y''[x]-(6*x^2-7*x+1)*y'[x]+(6*x-1)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \sqrt {x} (2 x+1)+c_2 (1-x) \]