17.9 problem 2(c)

Internal problem ID [5295]

Book: An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY 1961
Section: Chapter 4. Linear equations with Regular Singular Points. Page 154
Problem number: 2(c).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {4 x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+\left (4 x^{4}-5 x \right ) y^{\prime }+\left (x^{2}+2\right ) y=0} \end {gather*} With the expansion point for the power series method at \(x = 0\).

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.078 (sec). Leaf size: 51

Order:=8; 
dsolve(4*x^2*diff(y(x),x$2)+(4*x^4-5*x)*diff(y(x),x)+(x^2+2)*y(x)=0,y(x),type='series',x=0);
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} x^{\frac {1}{4}} \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}-\frac {1}{15} x^{3}+\frac {1}{72} x^{4}+\frac {137}{1950} x^{5}+\frac {307}{36720} x^{6}-\frac {7169}{3439800} x^{7}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right )+c_{2} x^{2} \left (1-\frac {1}{30} x^{2}-\frac {8}{57} x^{3}+\frac {1}{2760} x^{4}+\frac {64}{12825} x^{5}+\frac {147181}{9753840} x^{6}-\frac {4037}{72268875} x^{7}+\mathrm {O}\left (x^{8}\right )\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 106

AsymptoticDSolveValue[4*x^2*y''[x]+(4*x^4-5*x)*y'[x]+(x^2+2)*y[x]==0,y[x],{x,0,7}]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (-\frac {4037 x^7}{72268875}+\frac {147181 x^6}{9753840}+\frac {64 x^5}{12825}+\frac {x^4}{2760}-\frac {8 x^3}{57}-\frac {x^2}{30}+1\right ) x^2+c_2 \left (-\frac {7169 x^7}{3439800}+\frac {307 x^6}{36720}+\frac {137 x^5}{1950}+\frac {x^4}{72}-\frac {x^3}{15}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right ) \sqrt [4]{x} \]