21.2 problem 24

Internal problem ID [2355]

Book: Differential Equations by Alfred L. Nelson, Karl W. Folley, Max Coral. 3rd ed. DC heath. Boston. 1964
Section: Exercise 39, page 179
Problem number: 24.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_homogeneous, `class G`], _rational, _Clairaut]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 27

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.011 (sec). Leaf size: 41

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 x+\frac {1}{c_1} y(x)\to \text {Indeterminate} y(x)\to -2 \sqrt {x} y(x)\to 2 \sqrt {x} \end{align*}