15.8 problem 416

Internal problem ID [3161]

Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section: Various 15
Problem number: 416.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_linear]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 14

dsolve(diff(y(x),x)*x*ln(x) = a*x*(1+ln(x))-y(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = a x +\frac {c_{1}}{\ln \left (x \right )} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.036 (sec). Leaf size: 16

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to a x+\frac {c_1}{\log (x)} \\ \end{align*}