5.15 problem 16

Internal problem ID [4508]

Book: Fundamentals of Differential Equations. By Nagle, Saff and Snider. 9th edition. Boston. Pearson 2018.
Section: Chapter 8, Series solutions of differential equations. Section 8.3. page 443
Problem number: 16.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-2 y^{\prime }+y=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 52

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

\[ y \relax (x ) = \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}-\frac {1}{3} x^{3}-\frac {1}{8} x^{4}-\frac {1}{30} x^{5}\right ) y \relax (0)+\left (x +x^{2}+\frac {1}{2} x^{3}+\frac {1}{6} x^{4}+\frac {1}{24} x^{5}\right ) D\relax (y )\relax (0)+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 66

AsymptoticDSolveValue[y''[x]-2*y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (-\frac {x^5}{30}-\frac {x^4}{8}-\frac {x^3}{3}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {x^5}{24}+\frac {x^4}{6}+\frac {x^3}{2}+x^2+x\right ) \]