Internal problem ID [6935]
Book: Elementary differential equations. Rainville, Bedient, Bedient. Prentice Hall. NJ. 8th
edition. 1997.
Section: CHAPTER 18. Power series solutions. 18.4 Indicial Equation with Difference of Roots
Nonintegral. Exercises page 365
Problem number: 20.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]
\[ \boxed {2 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-3 x y^{\prime }+2 y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.032 (sec). Leaf size: 27
Order:=8; dsolve(2*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-3*x*diff(y(x),x)+2*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \sqrt {x}+c_{2} x^{2}+O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 18
AsymptoticDSolveValue[2*x^2*y''[x]-3*x*y'[x]+2*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 x^2+c_2 \sqrt {x} \]