1.40 problem 42

Internal problem ID [6774]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 1
Problem number: 42.
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 \left (x +2\right ) y^{\prime }+\left (x^{2}+4 x +6\right ) y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 19

dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-2*x*(x+2)*diff(y(x),x)+(x^2+4*x+6)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{x} x^{2}+c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{x} x^{3} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.009 (sec). Leaf size: 19

DSolve[x^2*y''[x]-2*x*(x+2)*y'[x]+(x^2+4*x+6)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to e^x x^2 (c_2 x+c_1) \\ \end{align*}