72.12.27 problem 5 (c)

Internal problem ID [19600]
Book : DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH APPLICATIONS AND HISTORICAL NOTES by George F. Simmons. 3rd edition. 2017. CRC press, Boca Raton FL.
Section : Chapter 3. Second order linear equations. Section 17. The Homogeneous Equation with Constant Coefficients. Problems at page 125
Problem number : 5 (c)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 04:40:30 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\begin{align*} x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+2 x y^{\prime }-12 y&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 15

ode:=x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+2*x*diff(y(x),x)-12*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {c_2 \,x^{7}+c_1}{x^{4}} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.008 (sec). Leaf size: 18

ode=x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}] +2*x*D[y[x],x]-12*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {c_2 x^7+c_1}{x^4} \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.089 (sec). Leaf size: 12

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + 2*x*Derivative(y(x), x) - 12*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {C_{1}}{x^{4}} + C_{2} x^{3} \]