6.4 problem 4

Internal problem ID [3900]

Book: Differential Equations, By George Boole F.R.S. 1865
Section: Chapter 7
Problem number: 4.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_homogeneous, `class A`], _rational, _dAlembert]

\[ \boxed {{y^{\prime }}^{2}+\frac {2 x y^{\prime }}{y}-1=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.094 (sec). Leaf size: 45

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

\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) = -i x \\ y \left (x \right ) = i x \\ y \left (x \right ) = -\frac {2 \sqrt {c_{1} x +1}}{c_{1}} \\ y \left (x \right ) = \frac {2 \sqrt {c_{1} x +1}}{c_{1}} \\ \end{align*}

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.47 (sec). Leaf size: 126

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to -e^{\frac {c_1}{2}} \sqrt {-2 x+e^{c_1}} \\ y(x)\to e^{\frac {c_1}{2}} \sqrt {-2 x+e^{c_1}} \\ y(x)\to -e^{\frac {c_1}{2}} \sqrt {2 x+e^{c_1}} \\ y(x)\to e^{\frac {c_1}{2}} \sqrt {2 x+e^{c_1}} \\ y(x)\to 0 \\ y(x)\to -i x \\ y(x)\to i x \\ \end{align*}