1.1 problem Problem 1.1(a)

Internal problem ID [11046]

Book: Differential Equations, Linear, Nonlinear, Ordinary, Partial. A.C. King, J.Billingham, S.R.Otto. Cambridge Univ. Press 2003
Section: Chapter 1 VARIABLE COEFFICIENT, SECOND ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Problems page 28
Problem number: Problem 1.1(a).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {\left (x -1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-y^{\prime } x +y=0} \] Given that one solution of the ode is \begin {align*} y_1 &= {\mathrm e}^{x} \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 12

dsolve([(x-1)*diff(y(x),x$2)-x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,exp(x)],y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} x +c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 17

DSolve[(x-1)*y''[x]-x*y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 e^x-c_2 x \\ \end{align*}