Internal problem ID [6942]
Book: Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th
edition. 1997.
Section: CHAPTER 18. Power series solutions. 18.4 Indicial Equation with Difference of Roots
Nonintegral. Exercises page 365
Problem number: 29.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler]]
\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime } x -12 y=0} \]
✓ 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)-12*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {c_{1}}{x^{4}}+c_{2} x^{3} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.011 (sec). Leaf size: 18
DSolve[x^2*y''[x]+2*x*y'[x]-12*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_2 x^7+c_1}{x^4} \]