In recent years, several workers demonstrated the usefulness of fractional
calculus in the derivation of particular solutions of a number of familiar
second-order differential equations associated (for example) with Gauss, Le
gendre, Jacobi, Chebyshev, Coulomb, Whittaker, Euler, Hermite, and Weber eq
uations. The main object of this paper is to show how some of the most rece
nt contributions on this subject, involving the Weber equations and their v
arious generalized forms, can be obtained by suitably applying a general th
eorem on particular solutions of a certain family of fractional differinteg
ral equations.