70.12.13 problem 24

Internal problem ID [18856]
Book : Differential equations. An introduction to modern methods and applications. James Brannan, William E. Boyce. Third edition. Wiley 2015
Section : Chapter 4. Second order linear equations. Section 4.2 (Theory of second order linear homogeneous equations). Problems at page 226
Problem number : 24
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 03:32:14 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 12

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

\[ y = x \left ({\mathrm e}^{x} c_2 +c_1 \right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.025 (sec). Leaf size: 17

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to e x \left (c_2 e^x+c_1\right ) \end{align*}

✗ Sympy

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

False