37.3 problem 1116

Internal problem ID [4317]

Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section: Various 37
Problem number: 1116.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_homogeneous, `class C`], _dAlembert]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.094 (sec). Leaf size: 44

dsolve((x-y(x))*sqrt(diff(y(x),x)) = a*(1+diff(y(x),x)),y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 66.53 (sec). Leaf size: 9683

DSolve[(x-y[x]) Sqrt[y'[x]]== a (1+y'[x]),y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

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