49.15.1 problem 1(a)

Internal problem ID [7687]
Book : An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY 1961
Section : Chapter 3. Linear equations with variable coefficients. Page 130
Problem number : 1(a)
Date solved : Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 12:18:57 PM
CAS classification : [_Hermite]

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

Using series method with expansion around

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 28

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

\[ y = \left (1-\frac {1}{2} x^{2}-\frac {1}{24} x^{4}\right ) y \left (0\right )+x y^{\prime }\left (0\right )+O\left (x^{6}\right ) \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 27

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

\[ y(x)\to c_1 \left (-\frac {x^4}{24}-\frac {x^2}{2}+1\right )+c_2 x \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.734 (sec). Leaf size: 22

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

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