13.2 problem 2

Internal problem ID [11856]

Book: Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section: Chapter 4, Section 4.5. The Cauchy-Euler Equation. Exercises page 169
Problem number: 2.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]

\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime } x -4 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+x*diff(y(x),x)-4*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {x^{4} c_{1} +c_{2}}{x^{2}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.01 (sec). Leaf size: 18

DSolve[x^2*y''[x]+x*y'[x]-4*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_2 x^4+c_1}{x^2} \]