76.12.22 problem 34

Internal problem ID [17499]
Book : Differential equations. An introduction to modern methods and applications. James Brannan, William E. Boyce. Third edition. Wiley 2015
Section : Chapter 4. Second order linear equations. Section 4.2 (Theory of second order linear homogeneous equations). Problems at page 226
Problem number : 34
Date solved : Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 10:10:35 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

Using reduction of order method given that one solution is

\begin{align*} y&={\mathrm e}^{x} \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.006 (sec). Leaf size: 12

ode:=(x-1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = c_{1} x +{\mathrm e}^{x} c_{2} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.096 (sec). Leaf size: 17

ode=(x-1)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-x*D[y[x],x]+y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_1 e^x-c_2 x \]

✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-x*Derivative(y(x), x) + (x - 1)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

False