27.40 problem 50

Internal problem ID [10874]

Book: Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section: Chapter 2, Second-Order Differential Equations. section 2.1.2-2 Equation of form \(y''+f(x)y'+g(x)y=0\)
Problem number: 50.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

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

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+\left (a \,x^{n}+b \right ) y^{\prime }+c \left (a \,x^{n}+b -c \right ) y=0} \]

✗ Solution by Maple

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+(a*x^n+b)*diff(y(x),x)+c*(a*x^n+b-c)*y(x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\[ \text {No solution found} \]

✗ Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 0

DSolve[y''[x]+(a*x^n+b)*y'[x]+c*(a*x^n+b-c)*y[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
                                                                                    
                                                                                    
 

Not solved