34.1 problem Ex 1

Internal problem ID [11317]

Book: An elementary treatise on differential equations by Abraham Cohen. DC heath publishers. 1906
Section: Chapter IX, Miscellaneous methods for solving equations of higher order than first. Article 58. Independent variable absent. Page 135
Problem number: Ex 1.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _with_potential_symmetries], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]

\[ \boxed {y y^{\prime \prime }-{y^{\prime }}^{2}-y^{2} y^{\prime }=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.094 (sec). Leaf size: 27

dsolve(y(x)*diff(y(x),x$2)-diff(y(x),x)^2-y(x)^2*diff(y(x),x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) &= 0 \\ y \left (x \right ) &= -\frac {c_{1} {\mathrm e}^{c_{1} \left (c_{2} +x \right )}}{-1+{\mathrm e}^{c_{1} \left (c_{2} +x \right )}} \\ \end{align*}

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 2.444 (sec). Leaf size: 43

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

\begin{align*} y(x)\to -\frac {c_1 e^{c_1 (x+c_2)}}{-1+e^{c_1 (x+c_2)}} \\ y(x)\to -\frac {1}{x+c_2} \\ \end{align*}