85.73.5 problem 4

Internal problem ID [22958]
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. B Exercises at page 316
Problem number : 4
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:16:57 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

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

With initial conditions

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 9

Order:=6; 
ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+x*diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 1, D(y)(0) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = x^{2}+1 \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 8

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+x*D[y[x],{x,1}]-2*y[x]==0; 
ic={y[0]==1,Derivative[1][y][0] ==0}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to x^2+1 \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.218 (sec). Leaf size: 22

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x*Derivative(y(x), x) - 2*y(x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)),0) 
ics = {y(0): 1, Subs(Derivative(y(x), x), x, 0): 0} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_ordinary",x0=0,n=6)
 

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