7.17 problem 20

Internal problem ID [4855]

Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley. 2006
Section: Chapter 8, Ordinary differential equations. Section 7. Other second-Order equations. page 435
Problem number: 20.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-3 x y^{\prime }+4 y=6 \ln \left (x \right ) x^{2}} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 18

dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-3*x*diff(y(x),x)+4*y(x)=6*x^2*ln(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = x^{2} \left (c_{2} +c_{1} \ln \left (x \right )+\ln \left (x \right )^{3}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.021 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[x^2*y''[x]-3*x*y'[x]+4*y[x]==6*x^2*Log[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to x^2 \left (\log ^3(x)+2 c_2 \log (x)+c_1\right ) \]