90.30.7 problem 7

Internal problem ID [25447]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations. By William Adkins and Mark G Davidson. Springer. NY. 2010. ISBN 978-1-4614-3617-1
Section : Chapter 7. Power series methods. Exercises at page 517
Problem number : 7
Date solved : Friday, October 03, 2025 at 12:01:36 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 38

Order:=6; 
ode:=(t-1)*diff(diff(y(t),t),t)-t*diff(y(t),t)+y(t) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(t),type='series',t=0);
 

\[ y = \left (1+\frac {1}{2} t^{2}+\frac {1}{6} t^{3}+\frac {1}{24} t^{4}+\frac {1}{120} t^{5}\right ) y \left (0\right )+t y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (t^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 41

ode=(t-1)*D[y[t],{t,2}]-t*D[y[t],t]+y[t]==0; 
ic={}; 
AsymptoticDSolveValue[{ode,ic},y[t],{t,0,5}]
 

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

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.224 (sec). Leaf size: 27

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

\[ y{\left (t \right )} = C_{2} \left (\frac {t^{4}}{24} + \frac {t^{3}}{6} + \frac {t^{2}}{2} + 1\right ) + C_{1} t + O\left (t^{6}\right ) \]