3.3 problem 3

Internal problem ID [6138]

Book: Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th edition. 1997.
Section: CHAPTER 17. Power series solutions. 17.5. Solutions Near an Ordinary Point. Exercises page 355
Problem number: 3.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+3 x y^{\prime }+3 y=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 44

Order:=8; 
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+3*x*diff(y(x),x)+3*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \left (1-\frac {3}{2} x^{2}+\frac {9}{8} x^{4}-\frac {9}{16} x^{6}\right ) y \relax (0)+\left (x -x^{3}+\frac {3}{5} x^{5}-\frac {9}{35} x^{7}\right ) D\relax (y )\relax (0)+O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 54

AsymptoticDSolveValue[y''[x]+3*x*y'[x]+3*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (-\frac {9 x^7}{35}+\frac {3 x^5}{5}-x^3+x\right )+c_1 \left (-\frac {9 x^6}{16}+\frac {9 x^4}{8}-\frac {3 x^2}{2}+1\right ) \]