65.7.6 problem 6

Internal problem ID [15714]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section : Chapter 2. The Initial Value Problem. Exercises 2.3.3, page 71
Problem number : 6
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 10:23:51 AM
CAS classification : [_linear]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x}+{\mathrm e}^{x} \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (1\right )&={\frac {1}{2}} \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.083 (sec). Leaf size: 36

ode:=diff(y(x),x) = 2*y(x)/x+exp(x); 
ic:=[y(1) = 1/2]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = -\operatorname {Ei}_{1}\left (-x \right ) x^{2}+\operatorname {Ei}_{1}\left (-1\right ) x^{2}+\frac {\left (2 \,{\mathrm e} x +x -2 \,{\mathrm e}^{x}\right ) x}{2} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.058 (sec). Leaf size: 32

ode=D[y[x],x]==2*y[x]/x+Exp[x]; 
ic={y[1]==1/2}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {1}{2} x^2 \left (2 \int _1^x\frac {e^{K[1]}}{K[1]^2}dK[1]+1\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.285 (sec). Leaf size: 19

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

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = x \left (x \left (\frac {1}{2} + \operatorname {E}_{2}\left (-1\right )\right ) - \operatorname {E}_{2}\left (- x\right )\right ) \]