18.8 problem 8

Internal problem ID [2280]

Book: Differential Equations by Alfred L. Nelson, Karl W. Folley, Max Coral. 3rd ed. DC heath. Boston. 1964
Section: Exercise 35, page 157
Problem number: 8.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_y]]

\[ \boxed {\left (x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }+2 x \left (y^{\prime }+1\right )=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 15

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

\[ y \left (x \right ) = -x +\left (c_{1} +1\right ) \arctan \left (x \right )+c_{2} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.043 (sec). Leaf size: 18

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

\[ y(x)\to (1+c_1) \arctan (x)-x+c_2 \]