85.75.4 problem 1 (d)

Internal problem ID [22969]
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 329
Problem number : 1 (d)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:17:03 PM
CAS classification : [_Gegenbauer]

\begin{align*} \left (-x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-2 x y^{\prime }+12 y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 34
Order:=6; 
ode:=(-x^2+1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-2*x*diff(y(x),x)+12*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 
\[ y = \left (3 x^{4}-6 x^{2}+1\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (-\frac {5}{3} x^{3}+x \right ) y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 31
ode=(1-x^2)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-2*x*D[y[x],x]+12*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 
\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (x-\frac {5 x^3}{3}\right )+c_1 \left (3 x^4-6 x^2+1\right ) \]
Sympy. Time used: 0.298 (sec). Leaf size: 31
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-2*x*Derivative(y(x), x) + (1 - x**2)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + 12*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_ordinary",x0=0,n=6)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} \left (3 x^{4} - 6 x^{2} + 1\right ) + C_{1} x \left (1 - \frac {5 x^{2}}{3}\right ) + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]