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Tutorial Sheet 3 Course Name: Mathematics-II Course code: 10B11MA201 Bessel and Legendre functions 1. Find the singular points of the following differential equations and classify them. 5 y '+ 3x 2 y = 0 (a) x 2 y ' ' (b) x 2 y ' '+(sin x) y '+(cos x) y = 0 (c) ( x 2 + x 2) 2 y ' '+3( x + 2) y '+( x 1) y = 0 (d) x 4 y ' '+4 x 3 y '+y = 0 . 2. Solve the following differential equations in series: (a) (1 x 2 ) y ' '+2 xy '+y = 0 (b) xy ' '+y '+xy = 0 (c) x 2 y ' '+xy'+( x 2 n 2 ) y = 0 (d) ( x x 2 ) y ' '+(1 5 x) y '4 y = 0 (e) 8 x 2 y ' '+10 xy '(1 + x ) y = 0 (f) x(1 + x) y ' '+( x + 5) y '4 y = 0 (g) 2 x 2 y ' 'xy '+(1 x 2 ) y = x 2 . 3. Solve the Legendres differential equation in a series of descending powers of x. 4. Express the following polynomials in terms of Legendre polynomials (a) f(x)= x 2 (b) f(x)= 4 x 3 2 x 2 3x + 8 (c) f(x)= x 4 + 2 x 3 6 x 2 + 5 x 3 . 5. State and prove Rodrigues formula and hence obtain
P0 ( x), P 1 ( x ), P 2 ( x) & P 3 ( x ).

6. Prove that Pn (0) = 0, for n odd and Pn (0) =

(1) n / 2 n! , for n even. n 2 {(n / 2)!}2 (c)

7. Prove the following recurrence relations: (a) nPn = xPn' Pn'1 (b) (1 + 2n) Pn = Pn'+1 Pn' 1
(1 x ) P = n( Pn 1 xPn ) .
2 ' n

8. Show that J 2 ' ( x) = (1

4 2 ) J 1 ( x) + J 0 ( x) . 2 x x

9. Express J 7 / 2 ( x) in terms of Sine and Cosine functions. 2 Sin(n ) ' ' 10. Prove that J n J n J n J n = . Hence deduce that x.

d J n 2 Sin(n ) = . 2 dx Jn xJ n 11. Express J 2 ( x ), J 3 ( x ) & J 4 ( x ) in terms of J 0 ( x) & J 1 ( x ).