13.3 problem 20.2 (ii)

Internal problem ID [11753]

Book: AN INTRODUCTION TO ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS by JAMES C. ROBINSON. Cambridge University Press 2004
Section: Chapter 20, Series solutions of second order linear equations. Exercises page 195
Problem number: 20.2 (ii).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\[ \boxed {\left (x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 34

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}+\frac {1}{8} x^{4}\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x -\frac {1}{6} x^{3}+\frac {7}{120} x^{5}\right ) D\left (y \right )\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 42

AsymptoticDSolveValue[(1+x^2)*y''[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (\frac {7 x^5}{120}-\frac {x^3}{6}+x\right )+c_1 \left (\frac {x^4}{8}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right ) \]