9.10 problem 10

Internal problem ID [12433]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section: Chapter 4. N-th Order Linear Differential Equations. Exercises 4.1, page 186
Problem number: 10.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], _Liouville, [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]

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

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 27

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

\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) = 0 y \left (x \right ) = \frac {1}{4} x^{2} c_{1}^{2}+\frac {1}{2} c_{1} x c_{2} +\frac {1}{4} c_{2}^{2} \end{align*}

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.028 (sec). Leaf size: 29

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {(c_1 x+2 c_2){}^2}{4 c_2} y(x)\to \text {Indeterminate} \end{align*}