1.8 problem 8

Internal problem ID [6741]

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]]

\[ \boxed {\left (x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+2 y^{\prime } x -2 y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (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)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.006 (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 \arctan (x)+1) \\ \end{align*}