15.49 problem 45

Internal problem ID [1397]

Book: Elementary differential equations with boundary value problems. William F. Trench. Brooks/Cole 2001
Section: Chapter 7 Series Solutions of Linear Second Equations. 7.6 THE METHOD OF FROBENIUS II. Exercises 7.6. Page 374
Problem number: 45.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {x \left (x +1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+\left (1-x \right ) y^{\prime }+y=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.01 (sec). Leaf size: 35

Order:=6; 
dsolve(x*(1+x)*diff(y(x),x$2)+(1-x)*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = \left (\ln \relax (x ) c_{2}+c_{1}\right ) \left (1-x +\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\left (4 x +\mathrm {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 27

AsymptoticDSolveValue[x*(1+x)*y''[x]+(1-x)*y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 (1-x)+c_2 (4 x+(1-x) \log (x)) \]