1.12 problem Problem 14.14

Internal problem ID [1988]

Book: Mathematical methods for physics and engineering, Riley, Hobson, Bence, second edition, 2002
Section: Chapter 14, First order ordinary differential equations. 14.4 Exercises, page 490
Problem number: Problem 14.14.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_homogeneous, `class C`], [_Abel, `2nd type``class C`], _dAlembert]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 21

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = -\operatorname {LambertW}\left (-\frac {c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {x}{2}-\frac {3}{2}}}{2}\right )-\frac {x}{2}-\frac {3}{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 60.041 (sec). Leaf size: 34

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {1}{2} \left (-2 W\left (-\frac {1}{2} c_1 e^{-\frac {x}{2}-\frac {3}{2}}\right )-x-3\right ) \\ \end{align*}