20.28.8 problem 8

Internal problem ID [4070]
Book : Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section : Chapter 11, Series Solutions to Linear Differential Equations. Additional problems. Section 11.7. page 788
Problem number : 8
Date solved : Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 02:16:14 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

\begin{align*} \left (4 x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-8 y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

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

Maple. Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 34
Order:=6; 
ode:=(4*x^2+1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-8*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 
\[ y = \left (4 x^{2}+1\right ) y \left (0\right )+\left (x +\frac {4}{3} x^{3}-\frac {16}{15} x^{5}\right ) y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 33
ode=(1+4*x^2)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-8*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[x],{x,0,5}]
 
\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (4 x^2+1\right )+c_2 \left (-\frac {16 x^5}{15}+\frac {4 x^3}{3}+x\right ) \]
Sympy. Time used: 0.806 (sec). Leaf size: 26
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq((4*x**2 + 1)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 8*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="2nd_power_series_ordinary",x0=0,n=6)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} \left (4 x^{2} + 1\right ) + C_{1} x \left (\frac {4 x^{2}}{3} + 1\right ) + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]