87.13.5 problem 5

Internal problem ID [23488]
Book : Ordinary differential equations with modern applications. Ladas, G. E. and Finizio, N. Wadsworth Publishing. California. 1978. ISBN 0-534-00552-7. QA372.F56
Section : Chapter 2. Linear differential equations. Exercise at page 100
Problem number : 5
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:42:21 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

\begin{align*} x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }+4 x y^{\prime }-4 y&=0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 13
ode:=x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+4*x*diff(y(x),x)-4*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = c_1 x +\frac {c_2}{x^{4}} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 16
ode=x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]+4*x*D[y[x],x]-4*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {c_1}{x^4}+c_2 x \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.101 (sec). Leaf size: 10
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) + 4*x*Derivative(y(x), x) - 4*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {C_{1}}{x^{4}} + C_{2} x \]