1.826 problem 845

Internal problem ID [8316]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 1
Problem number: 845.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }-\frac {6 y}{x^{2}}=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)=((4*(5/2)^2-1)/(4*x^2))*y(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {c_{1}}{x^{2}}+c_{2} x^{3} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.011 (sec). Leaf size: 18

DSolve[y''[x]==((4*(5/2)^2-1)/(4*x^2))*y[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_2 x^5+c_1}{x^2} \]