53.2.2 problem 2

Internal problem ID [11295]
Book : Collection of Kovacic problems
Section : section 2. Solution found using all possible Kovacic cases
Problem number : 2
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 07:37:42 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }&=\frac {20 y}{x^{2}} \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 15

ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = 20/x^2*y(x); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {c_1 \,x^{9}+c_2}{x^{4}} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 18

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]==((4*(9/2)^2-1)/(4*x^2))*y[x]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {c_2 x^9+c_1}{x^4} \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.027 (sec). Leaf size: 12

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 20*y(x)/x**2,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {C_{1}}{x^{4}} + C_{2} x^{5} \]