3.16 problem 16

Internal problem ID [6452]

Book: Own collection of miscellaneous problems
Section: section 3.0
Problem number: 16.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {x^{4} y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime } x^{3}-4 y x^{2}-x=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 20

dsolve(x^4*diff(y(x),x$2)+x^3*diff(y(x),x)-4*x^2*y(x)=x,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {c_{2}}{x^{2}}+x^{2} c_{1} -\frac {1}{3 x} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 25

DSolve[x^4*y''[x]+x^3*y'[x]-4*x^2*y[x]==x,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_2 x^2+\frac {c_1}{x^2}-\frac {1}{3 x} \\ \end{align*}