1.302 problem 305

Internal problem ID [7792]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 1
Problem number: 305.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {2 \left (-x +2\right ) x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-\left (-x +4\right ) x y^{\prime }+\left (3-x \right ) y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 21

dsolve(2*(2-x)*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-(4-x)*x*diff(y(x),x)+(3-x)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.064 (sec). Leaf size: 41

DSolve[2*(2-x)*x^2*y''[x]-(4-x)*x*y'[x]+(3-x)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {\sqrt [4]{x-2} \sqrt {x} \left (2 c_2 \sqrt {x-2}+c_1\right )}{\sqrt [4]{2-x}} \]