1.360 problem 365

Internal problem ID [7850]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 1
Problem number: 365.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\[ \boxed {u^{\prime \prime }+\frac {u}{x^{2}}=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 29

dsolve(diff(u(x),x$2)+1/x^2*u(x)=0,u(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ u \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \sqrt {x}\, x^{\frac {\sqrt {-3}}{2}}+c_{2} \sqrt {x}\, x^{-\frac {\sqrt {-3}}{2}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.029 (sec). Leaf size: 42

DSolve[u''[x]+1/x^2*u[x]==0,u[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

\[ u(x)\to \sqrt {x} \left (c_1 \cos \left (\frac {1}{2} \sqrt {3} \log (x)\right )+c_2 \sin \left (\frac {1}{2} \sqrt {3} \log (x)\right )\right ) \]