6.3 problem Problem 27.36

Internal problem ID [5218]

Book: Schaums Outline Differential Equations, 4th edition. Bronson and Costa. McGraw Hill 2014
Section: Chapter 27. Power series solutions of linear DE with variable coefficients. Supplementary Problems. page 274
Problem number: Problem 27.36.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

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

Solution by Maple

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (1-\frac {x^{3}}{6}\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x -\frac {1}{12} x^{4}\right ) D\left (y \right )\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

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AsymptoticDSolveValue[y''[x]+x*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (x-\frac {x^4}{12}\right )+c_1 \left (1-\frac {x^3}{6}\right ) \]