21.10 problem 32

Internal problem ID [2363]

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: 32.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_separable]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 17

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.106 (sec). Leaf size: 26

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 (x-1) y(x)\to c_1 (x+1) y(x)\to 0 \end{align*}