13.5 problem 359

Internal problem ID [3107]

Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section: Various 13
Problem number: 359.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_linear]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {x \left (1-x^{2}\right ) y^{\prime }-a \,x^{3}-\left (-2 x^{2}+1\right ) y=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 21

dsolve(x*(-x^2+1)*diff(y(x),x) = a*x^3+(-2*x^2+1)*y(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = x \sqrt {x -1}\, \sqrt {x +1}\, c_{1}+a x \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.049 (sec). Leaf size: 23

DSolve[x(1-x^2)y'[x]==a x^3+(1-2 x^2)y[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to x \left (a+c_1 \sqrt {1-x^2}\right ) \\ \end{align*}