27.15 problem 25

Internal problem ID [10102]

Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section: Chapter 2, Second-Order Differential Equations. section 2.1.2-1 Equation of form \(y''+f(x)y'+g(x)y=0\)
Problem number: 25.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _exact, _linear, _homogeneous]]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 52

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+(a*x+b)*diff(y(x),x)+a*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \operatorname {erf}\left (-\frac {\sqrt {-2 a}\, x}{2}+\frac {b}{\sqrt {-2 a}}\right ) {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {1}{2} a \,x^{2}-x b} c_{1} +c_{2} {\mathrm e}^{-\frac {1}{2} a \,x^{2}-x b} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.039 (sec). Leaf size: 53

DSolve[y''[x]+(a*x+b)*y'[x]+a*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {\sqrt {2} c_1 \operatorname {DawsonF}\left (\frac {b+a x}{\sqrt {2} \sqrt {a}}\right )}{\sqrt {a}}+c_2 e^{-\frac {1}{2} x (a x+2 b)} \\ \end{align*}