46.3.6 problem 6

Internal problem ID [9578]
Book : DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS with Boundary Value Problems. DENNIS G. ZILL, WARREN S. WRIGHT, MICHAEL R. CULLEN. Brooks/Cole. Boston, MA. 2013. 8th edition.
Section : CHAPTER 6 SERIES SOLUTIONS OF LINEAR EQUATIONS. 6.4 SPECIAL FUNCTIONS. EXERCISES 6.4. Page 267
Problem number : 6
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 06:20:58 PM
CAS classification : [_Bessel]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }+x y^{\prime \prime }+\left (x -\frac {4}{x}\right ) y&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 35

ode:=x*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+diff(y(x),x)+(x-4/x)*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {-\operatorname {BesselY}\left (0, x\right ) c_2 x -\operatorname {BesselJ}\left (0, x\right ) c_1 x +2 \operatorname {BesselY}\left (1, x\right ) c_2 +2 \operatorname {BesselJ}\left (1, x\right ) c_1}{x} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.011 (sec). Leaf size: 18

ode=D[x*D[y[x],x],x]+(x-4/x)*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to c_1 \operatorname {BesselJ}(2,x)+c_2 \operatorname {BesselY}(2,x) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.124 (sec). Leaf size: 12

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + (x - 4/x)*y(x) + Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} J_{2}\left (x\right ) + C_{2} Y_{2}\left (x\right ) \]