6.27 problem Exercise 12.27, page 103

Internal problem ID [4040]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations, By Tenenbaum and Pollard. Dover, NY 1963
Section: Chapter 2. Special types of differential equations of the first kind. Lesson 12, Miscellaneous Methods
Problem number: Exercise 12.27, page 103.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_linear]

Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {x y^{\prime }+a y+b \,x^{n}=0} \end {gather*}

Solution by Maple

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dsolve(x*diff(y(x),x)+a*y(x)+b*x^n=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \relax (x ) = -\frac {b \,x^{n}}{a +n}+x^{-a} c_{1} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.061 (sec). Leaf size: 25

DSolve[x*y'[x]+a*y[x]+b*x^n==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to -\frac {b x^n}{a+n}+c_1 x^{-a} \\ \end{align*}