64.9.5 problem 5

Internal problem ID [13403]
Book : Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section : Chapter 4, Section 4.1. Basic theory of linear differential equations. Exercises page 124
Problem number : 5
Date solved : Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 05:41:48 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\begin{align*} \left (2 x +1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-4 \left (1+x \right ) y^{\prime }+4 y&=0 \end{align*}

Using reduction of order method given that one solution is

\begin{align*} y&={\mathrm e}^{2 x} \end{align*}

✓ Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve([(2*x+1)*diff(y(x),x$2)-4*(x+1)*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=0,exp(2*x)],singsol=all)
 

\[ y = {\mathrm e}^{2 x} c_{2} +c_{1} x +c_{1} \]

✓ Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.180 (sec). Leaf size: 88

DSolve[(2*x+1)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-4*(x+1)*D[y[x],x]+4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \exp \left (\int _1^x\frac {2 K[1]}{2 K[1]+1}dK[1]-\frac {1}{2} \int _1^x\left (-2-\frac {2}{2 K[2]+1}\right )dK[2]\right ) \left (c_2 \int _1^x\exp \left (-2 \int _1^{K[3]}\frac {2 K[1]}{2 K[1]+1}dK[1]\right )dK[3]+c_1\right ) \]