37.7 problem 1120

Internal problem ID [4321]

Book: Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section: Various 37
Problem number: 1120.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 2.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_quadrature]

\[ \boxed {\sqrt {1+{y^{\prime }}^{2}}-x y^{\prime }=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 33

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

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.008 (sec). Leaf size: 89

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

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