17.3 problem 13

Internal problem ID [5461]

Book: Schaums Outline. Theory and problems of Differential Equations, 1st edition. Frank Ayres. McGraw Hill 1952
Section: Chapter 26. Integration in series (singular points). Supplemetary problems. Page 218
Problem number: 13.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\[ \boxed {2 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-x y^{\prime }+\left (-x^{2}+1\right ) y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 33

Order:=6; 
dsolve(2*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-x*diff(y(x),x)+(1-x^2)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \sqrt {x}\, \left (1+\frac {1}{6} x^{2}+\frac {1}{168} x^{4}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+c_{2} x \left (1+\frac {1}{10} x^{2}+\frac {1}{360} x^{4}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 48

AsymptoticDSolveValue[2*x^2*y''[x]-x*y'[x]+(1-x^2)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 x \left (\frac {x^4}{360}+\frac {x^2}{10}+1\right )+c_2 \sqrt {x} \left (\frac {x^4}{168}+\frac {x^2}{6}+1\right ) \]