1.11 problem 10

Internal problem ID [3274]

Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section: Various 1
Problem number: 10.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_separable]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime }-a \,x^{n} y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 19

dsolve(diff(y(x),x) = a*x^n*y(x),y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{\frac {a \,x^{n +1}}{n +1}} \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.049 (sec). Leaf size: 27

DSolve[y'[x]==a*x^n*y[x],y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 e^{\frac {a x^{n+1}}{n+1}} y(x)\to 0 \end{align*}