Internal problem ID [6031]
Book: An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY
1961
Section: Chapter 4. Linear equations with Regular Singular Points. Page 149
Problem number: 1(a).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]
\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime } x -6 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 15
dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+2*x*diff(y(x),x)-6*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} x^{2}+\frac {c_{2}}{x^{3}} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 18
DSolve[x^2*y''[x]+2*x*y'[x]-6*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_2 x^5+c_1}{x^3} \]