1.9 problem Problem 1.7

Internal problem ID [11054]

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 1.7.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_Jacobi]

\[ \boxed {x \left (1-x \right ) y^{\prime \prime }+\left (1-5 x \right ) y^{\prime }-4 y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 59

Order:=6; 
dsolve(x*(1-x)*diff(y(x),x$2)+(1-5*x)*diff(y(x),x)-4*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (c_{2} \ln \left (x \right )+c_{1} \right ) \left (1+4 x +9 x^{2}+16 x^{3}+25 x^{4}+36 x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\left (\left (-4\right ) x -12 x^{2}-24 x^{3}-40 x^{4}-60 x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 87

AsymptoticDSolveValue[x*(1-x)*y''[x]+(1-5*x)*y'[x]-4*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (36 x^5+25 x^4+16 x^3+9 x^2+4 x+1\right )+c_2 \left (-60 x^5-40 x^4-24 x^3-12 x^2+\left (36 x^5+25 x^4+16 x^3+9 x^2+4 x+1\right ) \log (x)-4 x\right ) \]