University of Tripoli/ Faculty of Engineering

Graduate School Program

GS604, spring 2015, Take Home Exam
Receive Date 7/6/2015, Submission Date 9/6/2015

Answer all questions

1) a) Find the indicial condition, the exponents (s1 & s2), and the
recurrence formula of the following DE, valid near x=0 :
x2(1 - x2) y” – x y’ + y = 0
a) Find the general solution of DE around x = 0 and determine the range
of convergence.

2) Solve the following DE’s in terms of known functions:

i) d/dx(x y’) + x y = 0
ii) (1 – x)(1 + x) y” – 2 x y’ + 56 y = 0
iii) x y” – y’ + 4 x3 y = 0
iv) x(1 – x) y” – 2(x – ½) y’ + 2y = 0

3) Use properties of Bessel functions to evaluate the following:

i) x2 y” + x y’ + (x2 -1/4) y = 0 for which lim y/√x =1.0
x→0
ii) d/dx (J2(x = 0.02))
iii) Y1/2 ( x = 10π )
iv) K1/2 ( x = 2)

4) i) Evaluate the following:

a. Γ(3 + x)/ Γ(1 + x) , for x = 0.1
b. B(1 , ½)
c. Γ(3.75)

ii) Find the convergence interval for following series:

∞
a) Σ(-1) x
k 2k
/[22k+1(k +1)! k!]]
k=0

∞
b) Σ(2k)x /[2
k 2k
k! (k -1/2)!]]
k=0