85.72.15 problem 2 (e)

Internal problem ID [22951]
Book : Applied Differential Equations. By Murray R. Spiegel. 3rd edition. 1980. Pearson. ISBN 978-0130400970
Section : Chapter 7. Solution of differential equations by use of series. A Exercises at page 316
Problem number : 2 (e)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:16:53 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\begin{align*} \left (x^{2}+4\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-x y^{\prime }+y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 28

Order:=6; 
ode:=(x^2+4)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = \left (1-\frac {1}{8} x^{2}+\frac {1}{384} x^{4}\right ) y \left (0\right )+x y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 27

ode=(x^2+4)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-x*D[y[x],x]+y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {x^4}{384}-\frac {x^2}{8}+1\right )+c_2 x \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.271 (sec). Leaf size: 22

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-x*Derivative(y(x), x) + (x**2 + 4)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_ordinary",x0=0,n=6)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} \left (\frac {x^{4}}{384} - \frac {x^{2}}{8} + 1\right ) + C_{1} x + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]