5.26 problem 26

Internal problem ID [104]

Book: Differential equations and linear algebra, 3rd ed., Edwards and Penney
Section: Section 1.6, Substitution methods and exact equations. Page 74
Problem number: 26.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_1st_order, _with_linear_symmetries], _Bernoulli]

\[ \boxed {y^{3}+3 y^{2} y^{\prime }={\mathrm e}^{-x}} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 99

dsolve(y(x)^3+3*y(x)^2*diff(y(x),x) = exp(-x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) = {\mathrm e}^{-x} \left (\left (c_{1} +x \right ) {\mathrm e}^{2 x}\right )^{\frac {1}{3}} y \left (x \right ) = -\frac {{\mathrm e}^{-x} \left (\left (c_{1} +x \right ) {\mathrm e}^{2 x}\right )^{\frac {1}{3}}}{2}-\frac {i \sqrt {3}\, {\mathrm e}^{-x} \left (\left (c_{1} +x \right ) {\mathrm e}^{2 x}\right )^{\frac {1}{3}}}{2} y \left (x \right ) = -\frac {{\mathrm e}^{-x} \left (\left (c_{1} +x \right ) {\mathrm e}^{2 x}\right )^{\frac {1}{3}}}{2}+\frac {i \sqrt {3}\, {\mathrm e}^{-x} \left (\left (c_{1} +x \right ) {\mathrm e}^{2 x}\right )^{\frac {1}{3}}}{2} \end{align*}

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.307 (sec). Leaf size: 72

DSolve[y[x]^3+3*y[x]^2*y'[x] == Exp[-x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to e^{-x/3} \sqrt [3]{x+c_1} y(x)\to -\sqrt [3]{-1} e^{-x/3} \sqrt [3]{x+c_1} y(x)\to (-1)^{2/3} e^{-x/3} \sqrt [3]{x+c_1} \end{align*}