1.2 problem 2

Internal problem ID [2999]

Book: Applied Differential equations, N Curle, 1971
Section: Examples, page 35
Problem number: 2.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.

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

\[ \boxed {\left (-x y^{\prime }+y\right )^{2}-{y^{\prime }}^{2}=1} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.125 (sec). Leaf size: 57

dsolve((y(x)-x*diff(y(x),x))^2=1+(diff(y(x),x))^2,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.127 (sec). Leaf size: 73

DSolve[(y[x]-x*y'[x])^2==1+(y'[x])^2,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to c_1 x-\sqrt {1+c_1{}^2} \\ y(x)\to c_1 x+\sqrt {1+c_1{}^2} \\ y(x)\to -\sqrt {1-x^2} \\ y(x)\to \sqrt {1-x^2} \\ \end{align*}