Internal problem ID [8337]
Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 3. Problems from Kovacic related papers
Problem number: Carolyn J. Smith 1984 paper. Appendix B examples and tests. Example
3.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]
\[ \boxed {\left (x -2\right )^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-\left (x -2\right ) y^{\prime }-3 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 19
dsolve((x-2)^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-(x-2)*diff(y(x),x)-3*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {c_{1}}{x -2}+c_{2} \left (x -2\right )^{3} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.035 (sec). Leaf size: 22
DSolve[(x-2)^2*y''[x]-(x-2)*y'[x]-3*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 (x-2)^3+\frac {c_2}{x-2} \]