2.19   ODE No. 19

  1. Problem in Latex
  2. Mathematica input
  3. Maple input

\[ y'(x)-(y(x)+x)^2=0 \] Mathematica : cpu = 0.0549314 (sec), leaf count = 14

\[\{\{y(x)\to -x+\tan (x+c_1)\}\}\] Maple : cpu = 0.039 (sec), leaf count = 16

\[ \left \{ y \left ( x \right ) =-x-\tan \left ( -x+{\it \_C1} \right ) \right \} \]

Hand solution

\begin {align} y^{\prime }-\left ( y+x\right ) ^{2} & =0\nonumber \\ y^{\prime } & =\left ( y+x\right ) ^{2}\tag {1} \end {align}

This is Riccati first order non-linear ODE of the form. Let \(u=y+x\), then \(u^{\prime }=y^{\prime }+1\) and (1) becomes\begin {align*} u^{\prime }-1 & =u^{2}\\ u^{\prime } & =1+u^{2} \end {align*}

This is separable\begin {align*} \frac {du}{dx}\frac {1}{1+u^{2}} & =1\\ \int \frac {du}{1+u^{2}} & =\int dx\\ \tan ^{-1}u & =x+C\\ u & =\tan \left ( x+C\right ) \end {align*}

Since \(u=y+x\) then

\[ y=\tan \left ( x+C\right ) -x \]