68.15.43 problem 46 (a)

Internal problem ID [17769]
Book : INTRODUCTORY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. Martha L. Abell, James P. Braselton. Fourth edition 2014. ElScAe. 2014
Section : Chapter 4. Higher Order Equations. Exercises 4.7, page 195
Problem number : 46 (a)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 02:28:00 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\begin{align*} x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-x y^{\prime }+2 y&=0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 17
ode:=x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-x*diff(y(x),x)+2*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = x \left (c_1 \sin \left (\ln \left (x \right )\right )+c_2 \cos \left (\ln \left (x \right )\right )\right ) \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 20
ode=x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]-x*D[y[x],x]+2*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to x (c_2 \cos (\log (x))+c_1 \sin (\log (x))) \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.100 (sec). Leaf size: 17
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - x*Derivative(y(x), x) + 2*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = x \left (C_{1} \sin {\left (\log {\left (x \right )} \right )} + C_{2} \cos {\left (\log {\left (x \right )} \right )}\right ) \]