71.2.13 problem 10 (a)

Internal problem ID [14274]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section : Chapter 1. Introduction. Exercises 1.3, page 27
Problem number : 10 (a)
Date solved : Monday, March 31, 2025 at 12:15:01 PM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler], [_2nd_order, _linear, `_with_symmetry_[0,F(x)]`]]

\begin{align*} x^{2} y^{\prime \prime }-4 x y^{\prime }+6 y&=0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (1\right )&=0\\ y \left (2\right )&=-4 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.024 (sec). Leaf size: 13

ode:=x^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-4*x*diff(y(x),x)+6*y(x) = 0; 
ic:=y(1) = 0, y(2) = -4; 
dsolve([ode,ic],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = -x^{3}+x^{2} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 13

ode=x^2*D[y[x],{x,2}]-4*x*D[y[x],x]+6*y[x]==0; 
ic={y[1]==0,y[2]==-4}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\[ y(x)\to -\left ((x-1) x^2\right ) \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.162 (sec). Leaf size: 8

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 4*x*Derivative(y(x), x) + 6*y(x),0) 
ics = {y(1): 0, y(2): -4} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

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