1.7 problem problem 44

Internal problem ID [284]

Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, 4th ed., Edwards and Penney
Section: Section 5.2, Higher-Order Linear Differential Equations. General solutions of Linear Equations. Page 288
Problem number: problem 44.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime } x +\left (x^{2}-\frac {1}{4}\right ) y=0} \] Given that one solution of the ode is \begin {align*} y_1 &= \frac {\cos \left (x \right )}{\sqrt {x}} \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 17

dsolve([x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)+(x^2-1/4)*y(x)=0,x^(-1/2)*cos(x)],singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.018 (sec). Leaf size: 33

DSolve[(1-x^2)*y''[x]-2*x*y'[x]+2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

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