42.1.20 problem 3.48 (b)

Internal problem ID [6842]
Book : Advanced Mathematical Methods for Scientists and Engineers, Bender and Orszag. Springer October 29, 1999
Section : Chapter 3. APPROXIMATE SOLUTION OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS. page 136
Problem number : 3.48 (b)
Date solved : Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 11:24:15 AM
CAS classification : [_linear]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }+x y&=\frac {1}{x^{3}} \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 28

ode:=diff(y(x),x)+x*y(x) = 1/x^3; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = -\frac {1}{2 x^{2}}+{\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x^{2}}{2}} \left (-\frac {\operatorname {Ei}_{1}\left (-\frac {x^{2}}{2}\right )}{4}+c_1 \right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.102 (sec). Leaf size: 46

ode=D[y[x],x]+x*y[x]==1/x^3; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \frac {1}{4} e^{-\frac {x^2}{2}} \operatorname {ExpIntegralEi}\left (\frac {x^2}{2}\right )-\frac {1}{2 x^2}+c_1 e^{-\frac {x^2}{2}} \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 4.097 (sec). Leaf size: 24

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x*y(x) + Derivative(y(x), x) - 1/x**3,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \left (C_{1} - \frac {\operatorname {E}_{2}\left (- \frac {x^{2}}{2}\right )}{2 x^{2}}\right ) e^{- \frac {x^{2}}{2}} \]