67.23.10 problem 33.3 (j)

Internal problem ID [16943]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section : Chapter 33. Power series solutions I: Basic computational methods. Additional Exercises. page 641
Problem number : 33.3 (j)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 01:40:33 PM
CAS classification : [_separable]

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

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 14

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

\[ y = y \left (0\right ) \left (1-\frac {x^{3}}{2}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 15

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

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (1-\frac {x^3}{2}\right ) \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.212 (sec). Leaf size: 14

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(3*x**2*y(x) + (2 - x**3)*Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics,hint="1st_power_series",x0=0,n=6)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} - \frac {C_{1} x^{3}}{2} + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]