Internal problem ID [5304]
Book: An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY
1961
Section: Chapter 4. Linear equations with Regular Singular Points. Page 166
Problem number: 3(b).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+2 x^{2} y^{\prime }-2 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: 53
Order:=8; dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+2*x^2*diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} x^{2} \left (1-x +\frac {3}{5} x^{2}-\frac {4}{15} x^{3}+\frac {2}{21} x^{4}-\frac {1}{35} x^{5}+\frac {1}{135} x^{6}-\frac {8}{4725} x^{7}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right )+\frac {c_{2} \left (12-12 x +8 x^{3}-8 x^{4}+\frac {24}{5} x^{5}-\frac {32}{15} x^{6}+\frac {16}{21} x^{7}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right )}{x} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.042 (sec). Leaf size: 87
AsymptoticDSolveValue[x^2*y''[x]+2*x^2*y'[x]-2*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (-\frac {8 x^5}{45}+\frac {2 x^4}{5}-\frac {2 x^3}{3}+\frac {2 x^2}{3}+\frac {1}{x}-1\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {x^8}{135}-\frac {x^7}{35}+\frac {2 x^6}{21}-\frac {4 x^5}{15}+\frac {3 x^4}{5}-x^3+x^2\right ) \]