1.8 problem 8

Internal problem ID [6742]

Book: Collection of Kovacic problems
Section: section 1
Problem number: 8.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.004 (sec). Leaf size: 16

dsolve((1+x^2)*diff(y(x),x$2)+2*x*diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = c_{1} x +c_{2} \left (\arctan \relax (x ) x +1\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.005 (sec). Leaf size: 23

DSolve[(1+x^2)*y''[x]+2*x*y'[x]-2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to i c_1 x-c_2 (x \text {ArcTan}(x)+1) \\ \end{align*}