30.14.23 problem 26

Internal problem ID [7672]
Book : Fundamentals of Differential Equations. By Nagle, Saff and Snider. 9th edition. Boston. Pearson 2018.
Section : Chapter 8, Series solutions of differential equations. Section 8.4. page 449
Problem number : 26
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 04:55:45 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.010 (sec). Leaf size: 44

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

\[ y = \left (-x^{2}+1\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x -\frac {1}{6} x^{3}-\frac {1}{120} x^{5}\right ) y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+\frac {x^{2}}{2}-\frac {x^{4}}{24}+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 47

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

\[ y(x)\to -\frac {x^4}{24}+\frac {x^2}{2}+c_1 \left (1-x^2\right )+c_2 \left (-\frac {x^5}{120}-\frac {x^3}{6}+x\right ) \]

✗ Sympy

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

ValueError : ODE -x*Derivative(y(x), x) + 2*y(x) - cos(x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) does not match hint 2nd_power_series_regular