Internal problem ID [6944]
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: 31.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]
\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-3 x y^{\prime }+4 y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 14
dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-3*x*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = x^{2} \left (c_{2} \ln \left (x \right )+c_{1} \right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.018 (sec). Leaf size: 18
DSolve[x^2*y''[x]-3*x*y'[x]+4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to x^2 (2 c_2 \log (x)+c_1) \]