Internal problem ID [4898]
Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley.
2006
Section: Chapter 12, Series Solutions of Differential Equations. Section 1. Miscellaneous problems.
page 564
Problem number: 4, using series method.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x]]
\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+4 y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 34
Order:=6; dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)=-4*y(x),y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (1-2 x^{2}+\frac {2}{3} x^{4}\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x -\frac {2}{3} x^{3}+\frac {2}{15} x^{5}\right ) D\left (y \right )\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 40
AsymptoticDSolveValue[y''[x]==-4*y[x],y[x],{x,0,5}]
\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (\frac {2 x^5}{15}-\frac {2 x^3}{3}+x\right )+c_1 \left (\frac {2 x^4}{3}-2 x^2+1\right ) \]