Internal problem ID [2473]
Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition,
2015
Section: Chapter 11, Series Solutions to Linear Differential Equations. Additional problems. Section
11.7. page 788
Problem number: 9.
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 }+y^{\prime } x +\left (x^{2}-\frac {1}{4}\right ) y=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 35
Order:=6; dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)+(x^2-1/4)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {c_{1} \left (1-\frac {1}{6} x^{2}+\frac {1}{120} x^{4}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) x +c_{2} \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}+\frac {1}{24} x^{4}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{\sqrt {x}} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.01 (sec). Leaf size: 58
AsymptoticDSolveValue[x^2*y''[x]+x*y'[x]+(x^2-1/4)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {x^{7/2}}{24}-\frac {x^{3/2}}{2}+\frac {1}{\sqrt {x}}\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {x^{9/2}}{120}-\frac {x^{5/2}}{6}+\sqrt {x}\right ) \]