Internal problem ID [11332]
Internal file name [OUTPUT/10318_Tuesday_December_27_2022_04_07_33_AM_17358228/index.tex]
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 61. Transformation of variables. Page 143
Problem number: Ex 2.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
The type(s) of ODE detected by this program : "unknown"
Maple gives the following as the ode type
[[_2nd_order, _with_linear_symmetries], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]
Unable to solve or complete the solution.
\[ \boxed {x^{3} y^{\prime \prime }-\left (x y^{\prime }-y\right )^{2}=0} \]
Maple trace
`Methods for second order ODEs: --- Trying classification methods --- trying 2nd order Liouville trying 2nd order WeierstrassP trying 2nd order JacobiSN differential order: 2; trying a linearization to 3rd order trying 2nd order ODE linearizable_by_differentiation trying 2nd order, 2 integrating factors of the form mu(x,y) trying a quadrature <- quadrature successful <- 2nd order, 2 integrating factors of the form mu(x,y) successful`
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 19
dsolve(x^3*diff(y(x),x$2)-(x*diff(y(x),x)-y(x))^2=0,y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = -x \ln \left (\frac {c_{1} x -c_{2}}{x}\right ) \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 1.65 (sec). Leaf size: 21
DSolve[x^3*y''[x]-(x*y'[x]-y[x])^2==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to -x \log \left (-\frac {c_2 x+c_1}{x}\right ) \]