Tutsheet 2
Tutsheet 2
Delhi
CO Mapping
Objective: The main objective of this tutorial sheet is to gain the knowledge about to series
solutions of 2nd order differential equations and Frobenius method.
1. Find the ordinary points, regular points and irregular singular points of the following
differential equations:
d2 y dy
(a) (x − 1)4 2
+ x + y = 0.
dx dx
2
d y dy
(b) (x − 1)2 x2 2 + 3(x − 1) + 2y = 0.
dx dx
2
d y dy
(c) x(x + 1)2 2 + 2(x − 1) + 2x3 y = 0.
dx dx
2
dy dy
(d) 2x2 2 − x + 2(x + 1)y = 0.
dx dx
d2 y dy
(e) (x − 1)(x + 2) 2 + x2 + 2xy = 0.
dx dx
2. Find the power series solution of the following differential equations:
(NOT COMPULSORY BUT FOR KNOWLEDGE POINT OF VIEW ONE
CAN DO IT.)
d2 y dy
(a) (1 − x2 ) 2
− 2x + 2y = 0.
dx dx
2
dy dy
(b) 2
+ (x − 3) + y = 0 in power of (x − 2).
dx dx
2
dy
(c) (1 − x2 ) 2 + 2y = 0 where y(0) = 4 and y ′ (0) = 5.
dx
d2 y dy
(d) (x2 − 1) 2 + 3x + xy = 0 where y(2) = 4, y ′ (2) = 6.
dx dx
1
3. Find the series solution of the following differential equations about the point 0 (Frobenius
Method)
d2 y dy
(a) 3x 2
+ (1 − x) − y = 0.
dx dx
2
dy dy
(b) 2x2 2 − x + (1 − x2 )y = 0.
dx dx
d2 y dy
(c) x 2+ + xy = 0.
dx dx
d2 y dy
(d) x2 2 + x + (x2 − 1)y = 0. (Bessels’s Equation of order 1)
dx dx
2
dy dy
(e) (1 − x2 ) 2 − x + 4y = 0.
dx dx
2
d y dy
(f) x2 2 + (x + x2 ) + (x − 9)y = 0.
dx dx