17.6 problem 6

Internal problem ID [13804]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section: Chapter 25. Review exercises for part III. page 447
Problem number: 6.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-7 y^{\prime } x +16 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 14

dsolve(x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)-7*x*diff(y(x),x)+16*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 18

DSolve[x^2*y''[x]-7*x*y'[x]+16*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to x^4 (4 c_2 \log (x)+c_1) \]