39.2.24 problem 24

Internal problem ID [8533]
Book : A FIRST COURSE IN DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS with Modeling Applications. Dennis G. Zill. 9th edition. Brooks/Cole. CA, USA.
Section : Chapter 6. SERIES SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS. Exercises. 6.2 page 239
Problem number : 24
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 05:38:45 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\begin{align*} 2 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+3 x y^{\prime }+\left (2 x -1\right ) y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.089 (sec). Leaf size: 48

Order:=6; 
ode:=2*x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+3*x*diff(y(x),x)+(2*x-1)*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y = \frac {c_2 \,x^{{3}/{2}} \left (1-\frac {2}{5} x +\frac {2}{35} x^{2}-\frac {4}{945} x^{3}+\frac {2}{10395} x^{4}-\frac {4}{675675} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+c_1 \left (1+2 x -2 x^{2}+\frac {4}{9} x^{3}-\frac {2}{45} x^{4}+\frac {4}{1575} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{x} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 84

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

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \sqrt {x} \left (-\frac {4 x^5}{675675}+\frac {2 x^4}{10395}-\frac {4 x^3}{945}+\frac {2 x^2}{35}-\frac {2 x}{5}+1\right )+\frac {c_2 \left (\frac {4 x^5}{1575}-\frac {2 x^4}{45}+\frac {4 x^3}{9}-2 x^2+2 x+1\right )}{x} \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.344 (sec). Leaf size: 80

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(2*x**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + 3*x*Derivative(y(x), x) + (2*x - 1)*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_regular",x0=0,n=6)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} \sqrt {x} \left (\frac {2 x^{4}}{10395} - \frac {4 x^{3}}{945} + \frac {2 x^{2}}{35} - \frac {2 x}{5} + 1\right ) + \frac {C_{1} \left (- \frac {4 x^{6}}{42525} + \frac {4 x^{5}}{1575} - \frac {2 x^{4}}{45} + \frac {4 x^{3}}{9} - 2 x^{2} + 2 x + 1\right )}{x} + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]