6.7 problem Problem 27.40

Internal problem ID [5222]

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 27.40.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+2 y x^{2}=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 24

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (1-\frac {x^{4}}{6}\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x -\frac {1}{10} x^{5}\right ) D\left (y \right )\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 28

AsymptoticDSolveValue[y''[x]+2*x^2*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (x-\frac {x^5}{10}\right )+c_1 \left (1-\frac {x^4}{6}\right ) \]