39.6.8 problem Problem 27.41

Internal problem ID [6566]
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 27.41
Date solved : Monday, January 27, 2025 at 02:12:21 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}

✓ Solution by Maple

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

Order:=6; 
dsolve((x^2-1)*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)-y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}-\frac {1}{8} x^{4}\right ) y \left (0\right )+y^{\prime }\left (0\right ) x +O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 27

AsymptoticDSolveValue[(x^2-1)*D[y[x],{x,2}]+x*D[y[x],x]-y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,"6"-1}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (-\frac {x^4}{8}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right )+c_2 x \]