6.20 problem 20

Internal problem ID [4425]

Book: Differential Equations, By George Boole F.R.S. 1865
Section: Chapter 7
Problem number: 20.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.

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

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 49

dsolve(y(x)-2*x*diff(y(x),x)=(x*(diff(y(x),x))^2),y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.116 (sec). Leaf size: 63

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

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