29.32 problem 854

Internal problem ID [4093]

Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section: Various 29
Problem number: 854.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_homogeneous, `class G`], _rational, _Clairaut]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.078 (sec). Leaf size: 33

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 53

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {a}{c_1}+c_1 x y(x)\to \text {Indeterminate} y(x)\to -2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {x} y(x)\to 2 \sqrt {a} \sqrt {x} \end{align*}