6.13 problem Problem 35

Internal problem ID [2228]

Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section: Chapter 8, Linear differential equations of order n. Section 8.1, General Theory for Linear Differential Equations. page 502
Problem number: Problem 35.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {2 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+5 y^{\prime } x +y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(2*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+5*x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {c_{1}}{\sqrt {x}}+\frac {c_{2}}{x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 20

DSolve[2*x^2*y''[x]+5*x*y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {c_2 \sqrt {x}+c_1}{x} \\ \end{align*}