Internal problem ID [6972]
Book: Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th
edition. 1997.
Section: CHAPTER 18. Power series solutions. 18.8 Indicial Equation with Difference of Roots a
Positive Integer: Nonlogarithmic Case. Exercises page 380
Problem number: 8.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]
\[ \boxed {x \left (1-x \right ) y^{\prime \prime }-3 y^{\prime }+2 y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 50
Order:=8; dsolve(x*(1-x)*diff(y(x),x$2)-3*diff(y(x),x)+2*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} x^{4} \left (1+2 x +3 x^{2}+4 x^{3}+5 x^{4}+6 x^{5}+7 x^{6}+8 x^{7}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right )+c_{2} \left (-144-96 x -48 x^{2}+48 x^{4}+96 x^{5}+144 x^{6}+192 x^{7}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.438 (sec). Leaf size: 77
AsymptoticDSolveValue[x*(1-x)*y''[x]-3*y'[x]+2*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (-x^6-\frac {2 x^5}{3}-\frac {x^4}{3}+\frac {x^2}{3}+\frac {2 x}{3}+1\right )+c_2 \left (7 x^{10}+6 x^9+5 x^8+4 x^7+3 x^6+2 x^5+x^4\right ) \]