6.8 problem 8

Internal problem ID [4738]

Book: A treatise on ordinary and partial differential equations by William Woolsey Johnson. 1913
Section: Chapter IX, Special forms of differential equations. Examples XVII. page 247
Problem number: 8.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-y a^{2}-\frac {6 y}{x^{2}}=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 48

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)-a^2*y(x)=6*y(x)/x^2,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-a x} \left (x^{2} a^{2}+3 a x +3\right )+c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{a x} \left (x^{2} a^{2}-3 a x +3\right )}{x^{2}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.138 (sec). Leaf size: 90

DSolve[y''[x]-a^2*y[x]==6*y[x]/x^2,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {\sqrt {\frac {2}{\pi }} \left (\left (a^2 c_2 x^2-3 i a c_1 x+3 c_2\right ) \cosh (a x)+i \left (c_1 \left (a^2 x^2+3\right )+3 i a c_2 x\right ) \sinh (a x)\right )}{a^2 x^{3/2} \sqrt {-i a x}} \]