3.43 problem 1043

Internal problem ID [9378]

Book: Differential Gleichungen, E. Kamke, 3rd ed. Chelsea Pub. NY, 1948
Section: Chapter 2, linear second order
Problem number: 1043.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_Hermite]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-y^{\prime } x +2 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 44

dsolve(diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-x*diff(y(x),x)+2*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \left (-2 x \,{\mathrm e}^{\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+\sqrt {2}\, \sqrt {\pi }\, \operatorname {erfi}\left (\frac {\sqrt {2}\, x}{2}\right ) \left (x -1\right ) \left (x +1\right )\right )+c_{2} \left (x^{2}-1\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.117 (sec). Leaf size: 54

DSolve[2*y[x] - x*y'[x] + y''[x] == 0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{4} c_2 \left (\sqrt {2 \pi } \left (x^2-1\right ) \text {erfi}\left (\frac {x}{\sqrt {2}}\right )-2 e^{\frac {x^2}{2}} x\right )+c_1 \left (x^2-1\right ) \]