Internal problem ID [4394]
Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley.
2006
Section: Chapter 12, Series Solutions of Differential Equations. Section 1. Miscellaneous problems. page
564
Problem number: 6, using series method.
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}]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (-\frac {x^5}{30}-\frac {x^4}{8}-\frac {x^3}{3}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {x^5}{24}+\frac {x^4}{6}+\frac {x^3}{2}+x^2+x\right ) \]