17.1.13 problem 2(c)

Internal problem ID [4103]
Book : Theory and solutions of Ordinary Differential equations, Donald Greenspan, 1960
Section : Chapter 2. First order equations. Exercises at page 14
Problem number : 2(c)
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 07:02:52 AM
CAS classification : [[_homogeneous, `class A`], _rational, _Riccati]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {x^{2}+y^{2}}{2 x^{2}} \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 17

ode:=diff(y(x),x) = 1/2*(x^2+y(x)^2)/x^2; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {x \left (\ln \left (x \right )+c_1 -2\right )}{\ln \left (x \right )+c_1} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.078 (sec). Leaf size: 29

ode=D[y[x],x]==(x^2+y[x]^2)/(2*x^2); 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {x (\log (x)-2+2 c_1)}{\log (x)+2 c_1}\\ y(x)&\to x \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.109 (sec). Leaf size: 10

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(Derivative(y(x), x) - (x**2 + y(x)**2)/(2*x**2),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = x \left (1 - 16 x^{2}\right ) \]