15.10 problem 10

Internal problem ID [14719]

Book: INTRODUCTORY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Martha L. Abell, James P. Braselton. Fourth edition 2014. ElScAe. 2014
Section: Chapter 4. Higher Order Equations. Exercises 4.7, page 195
Problem number: 10.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 14

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.017 (sec). Leaf size: 24

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

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{2} \sqrt {x} (c_2 \log (x)+2 c_1) \]