2.44 problem Problem 18(i)

Internal problem ID [12265]

Book: APPLIED DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS The Primary Course by Vladimir A. Dobrushkin. CRC Press 2015
Section: Chapter 4, Second and Higher Order Linear Differential Equations. Problems page 221
Problem number: Problem 18(i).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

\[ \boxed {x y^{\prime \prime }+x^{2} y^{\prime }+2 y x=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 36

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (i c_{2} \operatorname {erf}\left (\frac {i \sqrt {2}\, x}{2}\right ) \sqrt {\pi }\, \sqrt {2}+c_{1} \right ) x \,{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x^{2}}{2}}+2 c_{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.118 (sec). Leaf size: 69

DSolve[x*y''[x]+x^2*y'[x]+2*x*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to -\sqrt {\frac {\pi }{2}} c_2 e^{-\frac {x^2}{2}} \sqrt {x^2} \text {erfi}\left (\frac {\sqrt {x^2}}{\sqrt {2}}\right )+\sqrt {2} c_1 e^{-\frac {x^2}{2}} x+c_2 \]