18.59 problem 65

Internal problem ID [14886]

Book: INTRODUCTORY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Martha L. Abell, James P. Braselton. Fourth edition 2014. ElScAe. 2014
Section: Chapter 4. Higher Order Equations. Chapter 4 review exercises, page 219
Problem number: 65.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {\left (2 x^{2}-1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime } x -3 y=0} \] With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 34

Order:=6; 
dsolve((2*x^2-1)*diff(y(x),x$2)+2*x*diff(y(x),x)-3*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \left (1-\frac {3}{2} x^{2}-\frac {5}{8} x^{4}\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x -\frac {1}{6} x^{3}-\frac {1}{8} x^{5}\right ) D\left (y \right )\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 42

AsymptoticDSolveValue[(2*x^2-1)*y''[x]+2*x*y'[x]-3*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (-\frac {x^5}{8}-\frac {x^3}{6}+x\right )+c_1 \left (-\frac {5 x^4}{8}-\frac {3 x^2}{2}+1\right ) \]