6.12 problem Problem 34

Internal problem ID [2227]

Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section: Chapter 8, Linear differential equations of order n. Section 8.1, General Theory for Linear Differential Equations. page 502
Problem number: Problem 34.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]

\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+3 y^{\prime } x -8 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+3*x*diff(y(x),x)-8*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} x^{2}+\frac {c_{2}}{x^{4}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 18

DSolve[x^2*y''[x]+3*x*y'[x]-8*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {c_2 x^6+c_1}{x^4} \\ \end{align*}