58.9.3 problem 3

Internal problem ID [14682]
Book : Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section : Chapter 4, Section 4.1. Basic theory of linear differential equations. Exercises page 124
Problem number : 3
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:50:10 AM
CAS classification : [_Gegenbauer]

\begin{align*} \left (x^{2}-1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-2 x y^{\prime }+2 y&=0 \end{align*}

Using reduction of order method given that one solution is

\begin{align*} y&=x \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 14

ode:=(x^2-1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-2*x*diff(y(x),x)+2*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = c_2 \,x^{2}+c_1 x +c_2 \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.048 (sec). Leaf size: 39

ode=(x^2-1)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-2*x*D[y[x],x]+2*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {\sqrt {x^2-1} \left (c_1 (x-1)^2+c_2 x\right )}{\sqrt {1-x^2}} \end{align*}

✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-2*x*Derivative(y(x), x) + (x**2 - 1)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + 2*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

False