43.1.12 problem 7.2.103

Internal problem ID [6857]
Book : Notes on Diffy Qs. Differential Equations for Engineers. By by Jiri Lebl, 2013.
Section : Chapter 7. POWER SERIES METHODS. 7.2.1 Exercises. page 290
Problem number : 7.2.103
Date solved : Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 11:24:36 AM
CAS classification : [[_Emden, _Fowler]]

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

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.029 (sec). Leaf size: 32

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

\[ y = \sqrt {x}\, \left (x^{-\frac {\sqrt {5}}{2}} c_1 +x^{\frac {\sqrt {5}}{2}} c_2 \right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 38

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

\[ y(x)\to c_1 x^{\frac {1}{2} \left (1+\sqrt {5}\right )}+c_2 x^{\frac {1}{2} \left (1-\sqrt {5}\right )} \]

✗ Sympy

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

NotImplementedError : Not sure of sign of 11/2 - x0