Internal problem ID [6937]
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: 22.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]
\[ \boxed {2 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+5 x y^{\prime }-2 y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 27
Order:=8; dsolve(2*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+5*x*diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {x^{\frac {5}{2}} c_{2} +c_{1}}{x^{2}}+O\left (x^{8}\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 18
AsymptoticDSolveValue[2*x^2*y''[x]+5*x*y'[x]-2*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_2}{x^2}+c_1 \sqrt {x} \]