54.4.24 problem 27

Internal problem ID [8608]
Book : Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th edition. 1997.
Section : CHAPTER 18. Power series solutions. 18.4 Indicial Equation with Difference of Roots Nonintegral. Exercises page 365
Problem number : 27
Date solved : Monday, January 27, 2025 at 04:17:21 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\begin{align*} 9 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+2 y&=0 \end{align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(9*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+2*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 
\[ y = x^{{1}/{3}} \left (x^{{1}/{3}} c_{2} +c_{1} \right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[9*x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]+2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 
\[ y(x)\to \sqrt [3]{x} \left (c_2 \sqrt [3]{x}+c_1\right ) \]