Internal problem ID [2016]
Book: Mathematical methods for physics and engineering, Riley, Hobson, Bence, second edition,
2002
Section: Chapter 15, Higher order ordinary differential equations. 15.4 Exercises, page
523
Problem number: Problem 15.24(a).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-y-x^{n}=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 81
dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-y(x)=x^n,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = {\mathrm e}^{-x} c_{2} +c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{x}+\frac {{\mathrm e}^{-x} \left (-\left (\left (n \Gamma \left (n , -x \right )-\Gamma \left (n +1\right )\right ) \left (-x \right )^{-n}+{\mathrm e}^{x}\right ) x^{n} \left (n +1\right )+{\mathrm e}^{\frac {3 x}{2}} x^{\frac {n}{2}} \operatorname {WhittakerM}\left (\frac {n}{2}, \frac {n}{2}+\frac {1}{2}, x\right )\right )}{2 n +2} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.022 (sec). Leaf size: 50
DSolve[y''[x]-y[x]==x^n,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {1}{2} e^{-x} \left (x^{n+1} \operatorname {ExpIntegralE}(-n,-x)+e^{2 x} (-\Gamma (n+1,x)+2 c_1)+2 c_2\right ) \\ \end{align*}