10.16 problem 282

Internal problem ID [3030]

Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section: Various 10
Problem number: 282.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_linear]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 48

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

\[ y \relax (x ) = \frac {a \sqrt {\left (x -1\right ) \left (x +1\right )}\, \ln \left (x +\sqrt {x^{2}-1}\right )}{\left (x -1\right ) \left (x +1\right )}+\frac {c_{1}}{\sqrt {x -1}\, \sqrt {x +1}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.04 (sec). Leaf size: 32

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

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