1.14.5 problem 5

Internal problem ID [430]
Book : Elementary Differential Equations. By C. Henry Edwards, David E. Penney and David Calvis. 6th edition. 2008
Section : Chapter 3. Power series methods. Section 3.2 (Series solution near ordinary points). Problems at page 216
Problem number : 5
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 03:58:40 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_y]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 26

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

\[ y = y \left (0\right )+\left (x +\frac {1}{9} x^{3}+\frac {1}{45} x^{5}\right ) y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 25

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

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \left (\frac {x^5}{45}+\frac {x^3}{9}+x\right )+c_1 \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.240 (sec). Leaf size: 17

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

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} x \left (\frac {x^{2}}{9} + 1\right ) + C_{1} + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]