1.9 problem 3.24 (d)

Internal problem ID [4735]

Book: Advanced Mathemtical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Bender and Orszag. Springer October 29, 1999
Section: Chapter 3. APPROXIMATE SOLUTION OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. page 136
Problem number: 3.24 (d).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.026 (sec). Leaf size: 60

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

\[ y \relax (x ) = \ln \relax (x ) \left (x +2 x^{2}+3 x^{3}+4 x^{4}+5 x^{5}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_{2}+c_{1} x \left (1+2 x +3 x^{2}+4 x^{3}+5 x^{4}+6 x^{5}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\left (1+3 x +5 x^{2}+7 x^{3}+9 x^{4}+11 x^{5}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.035 (sec). Leaf size: 63

AsymptoticDSolveValue[x*(1-x)*y''[x]-3*x*y'[x]-y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

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