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TUTORIAL 6

MAT 580

SERIES SOLUTION NEAR INFINITY

DEC 2014

Given a linear homogenous second order differential equation


2
3x y+ ital xy `'+ { {2} over {x} } y=0} {¿ at x near infinity.

1
z=
a) Use the substitution x to rewrite the above differential
2
d y dy
P( z ) 2
+Q( z ) +R( z ) y=0 .
equation in the form of dx dx

y= ∑ an z n+r
b) For z = 0, assume n=0 to obtain the first four nonzero
for the two linearly independent series solutions.

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