10.15 problem 281

Internal problem ID [3537]

Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section: Various 10
Problem number: 281.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_linear]

\[ \boxed {\left (x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime }-y x=-a} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 18

dsolve((x^2+1)*diff(y(x),x)+a-x*y(x) = 0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \sqrt {x^{2}+1}\, c_{1} -a x \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.066 (sec). Leaf size: 22

DSolve[(1+x^2)y'[x]+a-x y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to -a x+c_1 \sqrt {x^2+1} \]