8.10 problem 10

Internal problem ID [4365]

Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley. 2006
Section: Chapter 8, Ordinary differential equations. Section 13. Miscellaneous problems. page 466
Problem number: 10.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_separable]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.039 (sec). Leaf size: 31

dsolve(u(v)*(1-v)+v^2*(1-u(v))*diff(u(v),v)=0,u(v), singsol=all)
 

\[ u \relax (v ) = {\mathrm e}^{\frac {\ln \relax (v ) v -\LambertW \left (-v \,{\mathrm e}^{c_{1}+\frac {1}{v}}\right ) v +c_{1} v +1}{v}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.027 (sec). Leaf size: 21

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

\begin{align*} u(v)\to -\text {ProductLog}\left (v \left (-e^{\frac {1}{v}-c_1}\right )\right ) \\ \end{align*}