Internal problem ID [4331]
Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley.
2006
Section: Chapter 8, Ordinary differential equations. Section 7. Other second-Order equations. page
435
Problem number: 1 (a).
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _exact, _nonlinear], _Lagerstrom, [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]
Solve \begin {gather*} \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+y y^{\prime }=0} \end {gather*} With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \relax (0) = 5, y^{\prime }\relax (0) = 0] \end {align*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.031 (sec). Leaf size: 5
dsolve([diff(y(x),x$2)+y(x)*diff(y(x),x)=0,y(0) = 5, D(y)(0) = 0],y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \relax (x ) = 5 \]
✗ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 0
DSolve[{y''[x]+y[x]*y'[x]==0,{y[0]==5,y'[0]==0}},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
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