1.16 problem Problem 1.13

Internal problem ID [12089]

Book: Differential Equations, Linear, Nonlinear, Ordinary, Partial. A.C. King, J.Billingham, S.R.Otto. Cambridge Univ. Press 2003
Section: Chapter 1 VARIABLE COEFFICIENT, SECOND ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Problems page 28
Problem number: Problem 1.13.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime } x \left (x -1\right )+3 x y^{\prime }+y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 60

Order:=6; 
dsolve(x*(x-1)*diff(y(x),x$2)+3*x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \ln \left (x \right ) \left (x +2 x^{2}+3 x^{3}+4 x^{4}+5 x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_{2} +c_{1} x \left (1+2 x +3 x^{2}+4 x^{3}+5 x^{4}+6 x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\left (1+3 x +5 x^{2}+7 x^{3}+9 x^{4}+11 x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.06 (sec). Leaf size: 63

AsymptoticDSolveValue[x*(x-1)*y''[x]+3*x*y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (x^4+x^3+x^2+\left (4 x^3+3 x^2+2 x+1\right ) x \log (x)+x+1\right )+c_2 \left (5 x^5+4 x^4+3 x^3+2 x^2+x\right ) \]