Internal problem ID [6826]
Book: Elementary differential equations. By Earl D. Rainville, Phillip E. Bedient. Macmilliam
Publishing Co. NY. 6th edition. 1981.
Section: CHAPTER 16. Nonlinear equations. Section 101. Independent variable missing.
EXERCISES Page 324
Problem number: 6.
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]]
\[ \boxed {\left (y+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-{y^{\prime }}^{2}=0} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.032 (sec). Leaf size: 16
dsolve((y(x)+1)*diff(y(x),x$2)=diff(y(x),x)^2,y(x), singsol=all)
\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) &= -1 \\ y \left (x \right ) &= {\mathrm e}^{c_{1} x} c_{2} -1 \\ \end{align*}
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 1.193 (sec). Leaf size: 26
DSolve[(y[x]+1)*y''[x]==(y'[x])^2,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to -1+\frac {e^{c_1 (x+c_2)}}{c_1} \\ y(x)\to \text {Indeterminate} \\ \end{align*}