20.6.13 problem Problem 35

Internal problem ID [3708]
Book : Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section : Chapter 8, Linear differential equations of order n. Section 8.1, General Theory for Linear Differential Equations. page 502
Problem number : Problem 35
Date solved : Monday, January 27, 2025 at 07:55:42 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

\begin{align*} 2 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+5 x y^{\prime }+y&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(2*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+5*x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {c_{1}}{x}+\frac {c_{2}}{\sqrt {x}} \]

✓ Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 20

DSolve[2*x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]+5*x*D[y[x],x]+y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_2 \sqrt {x}+c_1}{x} \]