83.14.6 problem 2 (e)

Internal problem ID [22021]
Book : Differential Equations By Kaj L. Nielsen. Second edition 1966. Barnes and nobel. 66-28306
Section : Chapter X. Solution in power series. Ex. XVIII at page 174
Problem number : 2 (e)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 08:21:44 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.011 (sec). Leaf size: 47

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

\[ y = c_1 \,x^{2} \left (1-\frac {1}{4} x +\frac {1}{20} x^{2}-\frac {1}{120} x^{3}+\frac {1}{840} x^{4}-\frac {1}{6720} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )+\frac {c_2 \left (12-12 x +6 x^{2}-2 x^{3}+\frac {1}{2} x^{4}-\frac {1}{10} x^{5}+\operatorname {O}\left (x^{6}\right )\right )}{x} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.014 (sec). Leaf size: 66

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

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (\frac {x^3}{24}-\frac {x^2}{6}+\frac {x}{2}+\frac {1}{x}-1\right )+c_2 \left (\frac {x^6}{840}-\frac {x^5}{120}+\frac {x^4}{20}-\frac {x^3}{4}+x^2\right ) \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.318 (sec). Leaf size: 37

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

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{2} x^{2} \left (- \frac {x^{3}}{120} + \frac {x^{2}}{20} - \frac {x}{4} + 1\right ) + \frac {C_{1} \left (\frac {x^{2}}{2} - x + 1\right )}{x} + O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]