84.33.5 problem 20.5

Internal problem ID [22322]
Book : Schaums outline series. Differential Equations By Richard Bronson. 1973. McGraw-Hill Inc. ISBN 0-07-008009-7
Section : Chapter 20. Regular singular points and the method of Frobenius. Solved problems. Page 109
Problem number : 20.5
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 08:37:29 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\begin{align*} x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-x y^{\prime }+y&=0 \end{align*}

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.009 (sec). Leaf size: 17

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

\[ y = x \left (\ln \left (x \right ) c_2 +c_1 \right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 14

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

\[ y(x)\to c_1 x+c_2 x \log (x) \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.188 (sec). Leaf size: 8

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

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