71.8.30 problem 11 (a)

Internal problem ID [14464]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section : Chapter 2. The Initial Value Problem. Exercises 2.4.4, page 115
Problem number : 11 (a)
Date solved : Tuesday, January 28, 2025 at 06:39:17 AM
CAS classification : [[_homogeneous, `class A`], _rational, [_Abel, `2nd type`, `class A`]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {y}{y-x} \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (1\right )&=2 \end{align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 7

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.051 (sec). Leaf size: 58

DSolve[{D[y[x],x]==y[x]/(y[x]-x),{y[1]==2}},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 
\[ \text {Solve}\left [\int _1^{\frac {y(x)}{x}}\frac {K[1]-1}{(K[1]-2) K[1]}dK[1]=\int _1^2\frac {K[1]-1}{(K[1]-2) K[1]}dK[1]-\log (x),y(x)\right ] \]