78.11.9 problem 7 (c)

Internal problem ID [18201]
Book : DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH APPLICATIONS AND HISTORICAL NOTES by George F. Simmons. 3rd edition. 2017. CRC press, Boca Raton FL.
Section : Chapter 3. Second order linear equations. Section 16. The Use of a Known Solution to find Another. Problems at page 121
Problem number : 7 (c)
Date solved : Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 11:48:55 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

Using reduction of order method given that one solution is

\begin{align*} y&=x \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 12

ode:=x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-x*(x+2)*diff(y(x),x)+(x+2)*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = x \left (c_{1} +c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{x}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.019 (sec). Leaf size: 16

ode=x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}] -x*(x+2)*D[y[x],x]+(x+2)*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\[ y(x)\to x \left (c_2 e^x+c_1\right ) \]

✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - x*(x + 2)*Derivative(y(x), x) + (x + 2)*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

False