67.13.22 problem 20.2 (d)

Internal problem ID [16687]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section : Chapter 20. Euler equations. Additional exercises page 382
Problem number : 20.2 (d)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 01:37:43 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

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

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (1\right )&=3 \\ y^{\prime }\left (1\right )&=0 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.036 (sec). Leaf size: 13

ode:=x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-x*diff(y(x),x)+y(x) = 0; 
ic:=[y(1) = 3, D(y)(1) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = 3 x -3 x \ln \left (x \right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 12

ode=x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]-x*D[y[x],x]+y[x]==0; 
ic={y[1]==3,Derivative[1][y][1]==0}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to -3 x (\log (x)-1) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.091 (sec). Leaf size: 10

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 = {y(1): 3, Subs(Derivative(y(x), x), x, 1): 0} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = x \left (3 - 3 \log {\left (x \right )}\right ) \]