1.4.19 problem 19

Internal problem ID [91]
Book : Elementary Differential Equations. By C. Henry Edwards, David E. Penney and David Calvis. 6th edition. 2008
Section : Chapter 1. First order differential equations. Section 1.5 (linear equations). Problems at page 54
Problem number : 19
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 03:43:03 AM
CAS classification : [_linear]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }+y \cot \left (x \right )&=\cos \left (x \right ) \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 19

ode:=diff(y(x),x)+y(x)*cot(x) = cos(x); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = -\frac {\left (2 \cos \left (x \right )^{2}-4 c_1 -1\right ) \csc \left (x \right )}{4} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.023 (sec). Leaf size: 19

ode=D[y[x],x]+y[x]*Cot[x]==Cos[x]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to -\frac {1}{2} \cos (x) \cot (x)+c_1 \csc (x) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.690 (sec). Leaf size: 14

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(y(x)/tan(x) - cos(x) + Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {C_{1} - \frac {\cos ^{2}{\left (x \right )}}{2}}{\sin {\left (x \right )}} \]