31.3 problem Ex 3

Internal problem ID [11299]

Book: An elementary treatise on differential equations by Abraham Cohen. DC heath publishers. 1906
Section: Chapter VIII, Linear differential equations of the second order. Article 54. Change of independent variable. Page 127
Problem number: Ex 3.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+y^{\prime } \tan \left (x \right )+\cos \left (x \right )^{2} y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.093 (sec). Leaf size: 15

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+tan(x)*diff(y(x),x)+cos(x)^2*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ y \left (x \right ) = c_{1} \sin \left (\sin \left (x \right )\right )+c_{2} \cos \left (\sin \left (x \right )\right ) \]

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.078 (sec). Leaf size: 18

DSolve[y''[x]+Tan[x]*y'[x]+Cos[x]^2*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\[ y(x)\to c_2 \sin (\sin (x))+c_1 \cos (\sin (x)) \]