4.37 problem 40

Internal problem ID [6857]

Book: Elementary differential equations. By Earl D. Rainville, Phillip E. Bedient. Macmilliam Publishing Co. NY. 6th edition. 1981.
Section: CHAPTER 16. Nonlinear equations. Section 101. Independent variable missing. EXERCISES Page 324
Problem number: 40.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 2.

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

\[ \boxed {{y^{\prime \prime }}^{2}-x y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime }=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.11 (sec). Leaf size: 28

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

\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) = \frac {x^{3}}{12}+c_{1} y \left (x \right ) = \frac {1}{2} c_{1} x^{2}-x \,c_{1}^{2}+c_{2} \end{align*}

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 24

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

\[ y(x)\to \frac {c_1 x^2}{2}-c_1{}^2 x+c_2 \]