16.6 problem 2(a)

Internal problem ID [6036]

Book: An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY 1961
Section: Chapter 4. Linear equations with Regular Singular Points. Page 149
Problem number: 2(a).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+x y^{\prime }+4 y=1} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 20

dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=1,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \sin \left (2 \ln \left (x \right )\right ) c_{2} +\cos \left (2 \ln \left (x \right )\right ) c_{1} +\frac {1}{4} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.02 (sec). Leaf size: 25

DSolve[x^2*y''[x]+x*y'[x]+4*y[x]==1,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \cos (2 \log (x))+c_2 \sin (2 \log (x))+\frac {1}{4} \]