71.1.11 problem 25

Internal problem ID [14320]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section : Chapter 1. Introduction. Exercises page 14
Problem number : 25
Date solved : Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 06:26:32 AM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\begin{align*} 2 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+x y^{\prime }-y&=0 \end{align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 13

dsolve(2*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)-y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 
\[ y = \frac {c_{1}}{\sqrt {x}}+c_{2} x \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 18

DSolve[2*x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]+x*D[y[x],x]-y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 
\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_1}{\sqrt {x}}+c_2 x \]