1.23 problem 3.50

Internal problem ID [5502]

Book: Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Bender and Orszag. Springer October 29, 1999
Section: Chapter 3. APPROXIMATE SOLUTION OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. page 136
Problem number: 3.50.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_linear]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime }-\frac {y}{x}=\cos \left (x \right )} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Order:=6; 
dsolve(diff(y(x),x)-y(x)/x=cos(x),y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ \text {No solution found} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.056 (sec). Leaf size: 34

AsymptoticDSolveValue[y'[x]-y[x]/x==Cos[x],y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to x \left (-\frac {x^6}{4320}+\frac {x^4}{96}-\frac {x^2}{4}+\log (x)\right )+c_1 x \]