28.2 problem 799

Internal problem ID [4039]

Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section: Various 28
Problem number: 799.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_1st_order, _with_linear_symmetries], _Clairaut]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.047 (sec). Leaf size: 25

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

\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) = \frac {a \,x^{2}}{4} y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} x -\frac {c_{1}^{2}}{a} \end{align*}

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 29

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 \left (x-\frac {c_1}{a}\right ) y(x)\to \frac {a x^2}{4} \end{align*}