Internal problem ID [4908]
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: 9, using series method.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]
\[ \boxed {\left (x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-2 x y^{\prime }+2 y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 18
Order:=6; dsolve((x^2+1)*diff(y(x),x$2)-2*x*diff(y(x),x)+2*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
\[ y \left (x \right ) = y \left (0\right )+D\left (y \right )\left (0\right ) x -y \left (0\right ) x^{2} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 18
AsymptoticDSolveValue[(x^2+1)*y''[x]-2*x*y'[x]+2*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (1-x^2\right )+c_2 x \]