15.3 problem 1(c)

Internal problem ID [6021]

Book: An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY 1961
Section: Chapter 3. Linear equations with variable coefficients. Page 130
Problem number: 1(c).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

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

Solution by Maple

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (1+\frac {x^{4}}{12}\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x +\frac {1}{20} x^{5}\right ) D\left (y \right )\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

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AsymptoticDSolveValue[y''[x]-x^2*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (\frac {x^5}{20}+x\right )+c_1 \left (\frac {x^4}{12}+1\right ) \]