Internal problem ID [4320]
Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy.
1960
Section: Various 37
Problem number: 1119.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.
CAS Maple gives this as type [_quadrature]
\[ \boxed {\sqrt {1+{y^{\prime }}^{2}}+a y^{\prime }-y=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.078 (sec). Leaf size: 77
dsolve(sqrt(1+diff(y(x),x)^2)+a*diff(y(x),x) = y(x),y(x), singsol=all)
\begin{align*} x -\left (\int _{}^{y \left (x \right )}\frac {\left (a -1\right ) \left (a +1\right )}{a \textit {\_a} +\sqrt {\textit {\_a}^{2}+a^{2}-1}}d \textit {\_a} \right )-c_{1} = 0 x -\left (\int _{}^{y \left (x \right )}-\frac {\left (a -1\right ) \left (a +1\right )}{-a \textit {\_a} +\sqrt {\textit {\_a}^{2}+a^{2}-1}}d \textit {\_a} \right )-c_{1} = 0 \end{align*}
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.833 (sec). Leaf size: 210
DSolve[Sqrt[1+(y'[x])^2]+ a y'[x]==y[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [\frac {a \left (\log \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+a^2-1}-\text {$\#$1}-a+1\right )+\log \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+a^2-1}-\text {$\#$1}+a-1\right )\right )-(a+1) \log \left ((a-1) \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+a^2-1}-\text {$\#$1}\right )\right )}{a^2-1}\&\right ]\left [\frac {x}{a^2-1}+c_1\right ] y(x)\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [\frac {a \left (\log \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+a^2-1}-\text {$\#$1}-a-1\right )+\log \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+a^2-1}-\text {$\#$1}+a+1\right )\right )-(a-1) \log \left ((a+1) \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+a^2-1}-\text {$\#$1}\right )\right )}{a^2-1}\&\right ]\left [\frac {x}{a^2-1}+c_1\right ] y(x)\to 1 \end{align*}