15.55 problem 54 (d)

Internal problem ID [14764]

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: 54 (d).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {\left (x^{4}-1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+\left (x^{3}-x \right ) y^{\prime }+\left (4 x^{2}-4\right ) y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 19

dsolve((x^4-1)*diff(y(x),x$2)+(x^3-x)*diff(y(x),x)+(4*x^2-4)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \sin \left (2 \,\operatorname {arcsinh}\left (x \right )\right )+c_{2} \cos \left (2 \,\operatorname {arcsinh}\left (x \right )\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.035 (sec). Leaf size: 47

DSolve[(x^4-1)*y''[x]+(x^3-x)*y'[x]+(4*x^2-4)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \cos \left (2 \log \left (\sqrt {x^2+1}-x\right )\right )-c_2 \sin \left (2 \log \left (\sqrt {x^2+1}-x\right )\right ) \]