87.15.5 problem 5

Internal problem ID [23553]
Book : Ordinary differential equations with modern applications. Ladas, G. E. and Finizio, N. Wadsworth Publishing. California. 1978. ISBN 0-534-00552-7. QA372.F56
Section : Chapter 2. Linear differential equations. Exercise at page 115
Problem number : 5
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:42:53 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+\left (x +3\right ) 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: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 18

Order:=6; 
ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+(x+3)*y(x) = 0; 
ic:=[y(0) = 1, D(y)(0) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = 1-\frac {3}{2} x^{2}-\frac {1}{6} x^{3}+\frac {3}{8} x^{4}+\frac {1}{10} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 33

ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+(3+x)*y[x]==0; 
ic={y[0]==1,Derivative[1][y][0] ==0}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {x^5}{10}+\frac {3 x^4}{8}-\frac {x^3}{6}-\frac {3 x^2}{2}+1 \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.230 (sec). Leaf size: 42

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq((x + 3)*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)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} \left (\frac {3 x^{4}}{8} - \frac {x^{3}}{6} - \frac {3 x^{2}}{2} + 1\right ) + C_{1} x \left (- \frac {x^{3}}{12} - \frac {x^{2}}{2} + 1\right ) + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]