81.1.9 problem 2-7

Internal problem ID [21454]
Book : The Differential Equations Problem Solver. VOL. I. M. Fogiel director. REA, NY. 1978. ISBN 78-63609
Section : Chapter 2. Separable differential equations
Problem number : 2-7
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 07:38:28 PM
CAS classification : [_separable]

\begin{align*} x y^{\prime }-2 y&=0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 9
ode:=x*diff(y(x),x)-2*y(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = c_1 \,x^{2} \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 16
ode=x*D[y[x],x]-2*y[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to c_1 x^2\\ y(x)&\to 0 \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.060 (sec). Leaf size: 7
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x*Derivative(y(x), x) - 2*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} x^{2} \]