85.76.5 problem 5

Internal problem ID [22983]
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 330
Problem number : 5
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:17:13 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

\begin{align*} 0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 44
Order:=6; 
ode:=x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+x*diff(y(x),x)+x*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 
\[ y = \left (c_2 \ln \left (x \right )+c_1 \right ) \left (1-x +\frac {1}{4} x^{2}-\frac {1}{36} x^{3}+\frac {1}{576} x^{4}-\frac {1}{14400} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\left (2 x -\frac {3}{4} x^{2}+\frac {11}{108} x^{3}-\frac {25}{3456} x^{4}+\frac {137}{432000} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right ) c_2 \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 111
ode=x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]+x*D[y[x],x]+x*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (-\frac {x^5}{14400}+\frac {x^4}{576}-\frac {x^3}{36}+\frac {x^2}{4}-x+1\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {137 x^5}{432000}-\frac {25 x^4}{3456}+\frac {11 x^3}{108}-\frac {3 x^2}{4}+\left (-\frac {x^5}{14400}+\frac {x^4}{576}-\frac {x^3}{36}+\frac {x^2}{4}-x+1\right ) \log (x)+2 x\right ) \]
Sympy. Time used: 0.286 (sec). Leaf size: 31
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + x*y(x) + x*Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_regular",x0=0,n=6)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} \left (- \frac {x^{5}}{14400} + \frac {x^{4}}{576} - \frac {x^{3}}{36} + \frac {x^{2}}{4} - x + 1\right ) + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]