3.12 problem Carolyn J. Smith 1984 paper. Appendix B examples and tests. Example 3

Internal problem ID [7581]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 3. Problems from Kovacic related papers
Problem number: Carolyn J. Smith 1984 paper. Appendix B examples and tests. Example 3.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {\left (x -2\right )^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-\left (x -2\right ) y^{\prime }-3 y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 19

dsolve((x-2)^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-(x-2)*diff(y(x),x)-3*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {c_{1}}{x -2}+c_{2} \left (x -2\right )^{3} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.018 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[(x-2)^2*y''[x]-(x-2)*y'[x]-3*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 (x-2)^3+\frac {c_2}{x-2} \\ \end{align*}