Internal problem ID [6265]
Book: Differential Equations: Theory, Technique, and Practice by George Simmons, Steven
Krantz. McGraw-Hill NY. 2007. 1st Edition.
Section: Chapter 1. What is a differential equation. Problems for Review and Discovery. Page
53
Problem number: 4(a).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type
[[_2nd_order, _missing_x], _Liouville, [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]
\[ \boxed {y y^{\prime \prime }-{y^{\prime }}^{2}=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.047 (sec). Leaf size: 14
dsolve(y(x)*diff(y(x),x$2)-(diff(y(x),x))^2=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) = 0 y \left (x \right ) = {\mathrm e}^{c_{1} x} c_{2} \end{align*}
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.113 (sec). Leaf size: 14
DSolve[y[x]*y''[x]-(y'[x])^2==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to c_2 e^{c_1 x} \]