13.4 problem 1(d)

Internal problem ID [6012]

Book: An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY 1961
Section: Chapter 3. Linear equations with variable coefficients. Page 121
Problem number: 1(d).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_Laguerre]

\[ \boxed {x y^{\prime \prime }-\left (1+x \right ) y^{\prime }+y=0} \] Given that one solution of the ode is \begin {align*} y_1 &= {\mathrm e}^{x} \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 13

dsolve([x*diff(y(x),x$2)-(x+1)*diff(y(x),x)+y(x)=0,exp(x)],singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.029 (sec). Leaf size: 19

DSolve[x*y''[x]-(x+1)*y'[x]+y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 e^x-c_2 (x+1) \]