68.15.60 problem 60

Internal problem ID [17786]
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 : 60
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 02:28:15 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\begin{align*} x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-x y^{\prime }+y&=0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.032 (sec). Leaf size: 12

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

\[ y = x \left (-i \pi +\ln \left (x \right )\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 15

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to x (\log (x)-i \pi ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.097 (sec). Leaf size: 10

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

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = x \left (\log {\left (x \right )} - i \pi \right ) \]