Netaji Subhash University of Technology, Dwarka.

Delhi

Tutorial Sheet 1(UNIT-1)

Course Name: Mathematics 2 Course Code: FCMT007
Academic Year: 2022-2023 Semester: 2

CO Mapping

Tutorial Sheet Topics CO1 CO2 CO3 CO4

1 Series solutions of 2nd order ✓
differential equation .

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

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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