5.5 problem 5

Internal problem ID [12345]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section: Chapter 2. The Initial Value Problem. Exercises 2.3.1, page 57
Problem number: 5.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_quadrature]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime }=\frac {1}{x -1}} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \left (2\right ) = 1] \end {align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 10

dsolve([diff(y(x),x)=1/(x-1),y(2) = 1],y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = \ln \left (x -1\right )+1 \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.006 (sec). Leaf size: 11

DSolve[{y'[x]==1/(x-1),{y[2]==1}},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to \log (x-1)+1 \]