2.1.12 Problem 12

Internal problem ID [9998]
Book : Own collection of miscellaneous problems
Section : section 1.0
Problem number : 12
Date solved : Monday, December 29, 2025 at 08:24:14 PM
CAS classification : [_separable]

2.1.12.1 Existence and uniqueness analysis

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x} \\ y \left (0\right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

This is a linear ODE. In canonical form it is written as

\begin{align*} y^{\prime } + q(x)y &= p(x) \end{align*}

Where here

\begin{align*} q(x) &=-\frac {2}{x}\\ p(x) &=0 \end{align*}

Hence the ode is

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }-\frac {2 y}{x} = 0 \end{align*}

The domain of \(q(x)=-\frac {2}{x}\) is

\[ \{x <0\boldsymbol {\lor }0<x\} \]

But the point \(x_0 = 0\) is not inside this domain. Hence existence and uniqueness theorem does not apply. There could be infinite number of solutions, or one solution or no solution at all.

2.1.12.2 Solved using first_order_ode_linear

0.195 (sec)

Entering first order ode linear solver

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x} \\ y \left (0\right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

In canonical form a linear first order is

\begin{align*} y^{\prime } + q(x)y &= p(x) \end{align*}

Comparing the above to the given ode shows that

\begin{align*} q(x) &=-\frac {2}{x}\\ p(x) &=0 \end{align*}

The integrating factor \(\mu \) is

\begin{align*} \mu &= e^{\int {q\,dx}}\\ &= {\mathrm e}^{\int -\frac {2}{x}d x}\\ &= \frac {1}{x^{2}} \end{align*}

The ode becomes

\begin{align*} \frac {\mathop {\mathrm {d}}}{ \mathop {\mathrm {d}x}} \mu y &= 0 \\ \frac {\mathop {\mathrm {d}}}{ \mathop {\mathrm {d}x}} \left (\frac {y}{x^{2}}\right ) &= 0 \end{align*}

Integrating gives

\begin{align*} \frac {y}{x^{2}}&= \int {0 \,dx} + c_1 \\ &=c_1 \end{align*}

Dividing throughout by the integrating factor \(\frac {1}{x^{2}}\) gives the final solution

\[ y = c_1 \,x^{2} \]

Solving for initial conditions the solution is

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

Figure 2.30: Slope field \(y^{\prime } = \frac {2 y}{x}\)

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

2.1.12.3 Solved using first_order_ode_separable

1.355 (sec)

Entering first order ode separable solver

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x} \\ y \left (0\right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

The ode

\begin{equation} y^{\prime } = \frac {2 y}{x} \end{equation}

is separable as it can be written as

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&= \frac {2 y}{x}\\ &= f(x) g(y) \end{align*}

Where

\begin{align*} f(x) &= \frac {2}{x}\\ g(y) &= y \end{align*}

Integrating gives

\begin{align*} \int { \frac {1}{g(y)} \,dy} &= \int { f(x) \,dx} \\ \int { \frac {1}{y}\,dy} &= \int { \frac {2}{x} \,dx} \\ \end{align*}

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

Taking the exponential of both sides the solution becomes

\[ y = c_1 \,x^{2} \]

We now need to find the singular solutions, these are found by finding for what values \(g(y)\) is zero, since we had to divide by this above. Solving \(g(y)=0\) or

\[ y=0 \]

for \(y\) gives

\begin{align*} y&=0 \end{align*}

Now we go over each such singular solution and check if it verifies the ode itself and any initial conditions given. If it does not then the singular solution will not be used.

Therefore the solutions found are

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ y &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Solving for initial conditions the solution is

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ y &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Solutions plot	Slope field \(y^{\prime } = \frac {2 y}{x}\)

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= 0 \\ y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

2.1.12.4 Solved using first_order_ode_exact

0.733 (sec)

Entering first order ode exact solver

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x} \\ y \left (0\right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

To solve an ode of the form

\begin{equation} M\left ( x,y\right ) +N\left ( x,y\right ) \frac {dy}{dx}=0\tag {A}\end{equation}

We assume there exists a function \(\phi \left ( x,y\right ) =c\) where \(c\) is constant, that satisfies the ode. Taking derivative of \(\phi \) w.r.t. \(x\) gives

\[ \frac {d}{dx}\phi \left ( x,y\right ) =0 \]

Hence

\begin{equation} \frac {\partial \phi }{\partial x}+\frac {\partial \phi }{\partial y}\frac {dy}{dx}=0\tag {B}\end{equation}

Comparing (A,B) shows that

\begin{align*} \frac {\partial \phi }{\partial x} & =M\\ \frac {\partial \phi }{\partial y} & =N \end{align*}

But since \(\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial x\partial y}=\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial y\partial x}\) then for the above to be valid, we require that

\[ \frac {\partial M}{\partial y}=\frac {\partial N}{\partial x}\]

If the above condition is satisfied, then the original ode is called exact. We still need to determine \(\phi \left ( x,y\right ) \) but at least we know now that we can do that since the condition \(\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial x\partial y}=\frac {\partial ^{2}\phi }{\partial y\partial x}\) is satisfied. If this condition is not satisfied then this method will not work and we have to now look for an integrating factor to force this condition, which might or might not exist. The first step is to write the ODE in standard form to check for exactness, which is

\[ M(x,y) \mathop {\mathrm {d}x}+ N(x,y) \mathop {\mathrm {d}y}=0 \tag {1A} \]

Therefore

\begin{align*} \mathop {\mathrm {d}y} &= \left (\frac {2 y}{x}\right )\mathop {\mathrm {d}x}\\ \left (-\frac {2 y}{x}\right ) \mathop {\mathrm {d}x} + \mathop {\mathrm {d}y} &= 0 \tag {2A} \end{align*}

Comparing (1A) and (2A) shows that

\begin{align*} M(x,y) &= -\frac {2 y}{x}\\ N(x,y) &= 1 \end{align*}

The next step is to determine if the ODE is is exact or not. The ODE is exact when the following condition is satisfied

\[ \frac {\partial M}{\partial y} = \frac {\partial N}{\partial x} \]

Using result found above gives

\begin{align*} \frac {\partial M}{\partial y} &= \frac {\partial }{\partial y} \left (-\frac {2 y}{x}\right )\\ &= -\frac {2}{x} \end{align*}

And

\begin{align*} \frac {\partial N}{\partial x} &= \frac {\partial }{\partial x} \left (1\right )\\ &= 0 \end{align*}

Since \(\frac {\partial M}{\partial y} \neq \frac {\partial N}{\partial x}\), then the ODE is not exact. Since the ODE is not exact, we will try to find an integrating factor to make it exact. Let

\begin{align*} A &= \frac {1}{N} \left (\frac {\partial M}{\partial y} - \frac {\partial N}{\partial x} \right ) \\ &=1\left ( \left ( -\frac {2}{x}\right ) - \left (0 \right ) \right ) \\ &=-\frac {2}{x} \end{align*}

Since \(A\) does not depend on \(y\), then it can be used to find an integrating factor. The integrating factor \(\mu \) is

\begin{align*} \mu &= e^{ \int A \mathop {\mathrm {d}x} } \\ &= e^{\int -\frac {2}{x}\mathop {\mathrm {d}x} } \end{align*}

The result of integrating gives

\begin{align*} \mu &= e^{-2 \ln \left (x \right ) } \\ &= \frac {1}{x^{2}} \end{align*}

\(M\) and \(N\) are multiplied by this integrating factor, giving new \(M\) and new \(N\) which are called \(\overline {M}\) and \(\overline {N}\) for now so not to confuse them with the original \(M\) and \(N\).

\begin{align*} \overline {M} &=\mu M \\ &= \frac {1}{x^{2}}\left (-\frac {2 y}{x}\right ) \\ &= -\frac {2 y}{x^{3}} \end{align*}

And

\begin{align*} \overline {N} &=\mu N \\ &= \frac {1}{x^{2}}\left (1\right ) \\ &= \frac {1}{x^{2}} \end{align*}

Now a modified ODE is ontained from the original ODE, which is exact and can be solved. The modified ODE is

\begin{align*} \overline {M} + \overline {N} \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}y}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}x}} &= 0 \\ \left (-\frac {2 y}{x^{3}}\right ) + \left (\frac {1}{x^{2}}\right ) \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}y}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}x}} &= 0 \end{align*}

The following equations are now set up to solve for the function \(\phi \left (x,y\right )\)

\begin{align*} \frac {\partial \phi }{\partial x } &= \overline {M}\tag {1} \\ \frac {\partial \phi }{\partial y } &= \overline {N}\tag {2} \end{align*}

Integrating (2) w.r.t. \(y\) gives

\begin{align*} \int \frac {\partial \phi }{\partial y} \mathop {\mathrm {d}y} &= \int \overline {N}\mathop {\mathrm {d}y} \\ \int \frac {\partial \phi }{\partial y} \mathop {\mathrm {d}y} &= \int \frac {1}{x^{2}}\mathop {\mathrm {d}y} \\ \tag{3} \phi &= \frac {y}{x^{2}}+ f(x) \\ \end{align*}

Where \(f(x)\) is used for the constant of integration since \(\phi \) is a function of both \(x\) and \(y\). Taking derivative of equation (3) w.r.t \(x\) gives

\begin{equation} \tag{4} \frac {\partial \phi }{\partial x} = -\frac {2 y}{x^{3}}+f'(x) \end{equation}

But equation (1) says that \(\frac {\partial \phi }{\partial x} = -\frac {2 y}{x^{3}}\). Therefore equation (4) becomes

\begin{equation} \tag{5} -\frac {2 y}{x^{3}} = -\frac {2 y}{x^{3}}+f'(x) \end{equation}

Solving equation (5) for \( f'(x)\) gives

\[ f'(x) = 0 \]

Therefore

\[ f(x) = c_1 \]

Where \(c_1\) is constant of integration. Substituting this result for \(f(x)\) into equation (3) gives \(\phi \)

\[ \phi = \frac {y}{x^{2}}+ c_1 \]

But since \(\phi \) itself is a constant function, then let \(\phi =c_2\) where \(c_2\) is new constant and combining \(c_1\) and \(c_2\) constants into the constant \(c_1\) gives the solution as

\[ c_1 = \frac {y}{x^{2}} \]

Solving for \(y\) gives

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

Solving for initial conditions the solution is

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

Figure 2.31: Slope field \(y^{\prime } = \frac {2 y}{x}\)

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

2.1.12.5 Solved using first_order_ode_homog_A

1.020 (sec)

Entering first order ode homog A solver

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x} \\ y \left (0\right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

In canonical form, the ODE is

\begin{align*} y' &= F(x,y)\\ &= \frac {2 y}{x}\tag {1} \end{align*}

An ode of the form \(y' = \frac {M(x,y)}{N(x,y)}\) is called homogeneous if the functions \(M(x,y)\) and \(N(x,y)\) are both homogeneous functions and of the same order. Recall that a function \(f(x,y)\) is homogeneous of order \(n\) if

\[ f(t^n x, t^n y)= t^n f(x,y) \]

In this case, it can be seen that both \(M=2 y\) and \(N=x\) are both homogeneous and of the same order \(n=1\). Therefore this is a homogeneous ode. Since this ode is homogeneous, it is converted to separable ODE using the substitution \(u=\frac {y}{x}\), or \(y=ux\). Hence

\[ \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}y}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}x}}= \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}u}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}x}}x + u \]

Applying the transformation \(y=ux\) to the above ODE in (1) gives

\begin{align*} \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}u}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}x}}x + u &= 2 u\\ \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}u}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}x}} &= \frac {u \left (x \right )}{x} \end{align*}

Or

\[ u^{\prime }\left (x \right )-\frac {u \left (x \right )}{x} = 0 \]

Or

\[ u^{\prime }\left (x \right ) x -u \left (x \right ) = 0 \]

Which is now solved as separable in \(u \left (x \right )\).

The ode

\begin{equation} u^{\prime }\left (x \right ) = \frac {u \left (x \right )}{x} \end{equation}

is separable as it can be written as

\begin{align*} u^{\prime }\left (x \right )&= \frac {u \left (x \right )}{x}\\ &= f(x) g(u) \end{align*}

Where

\begin{align*} f(x) &= \frac {1}{x}\\ g(u) &= u \end{align*}

Integrating gives

\begin{align*} \int { \frac {1}{g(u)} \,du} &= \int { f(x) \,dx} \\ \int { \frac {1}{u}\,du} &= \int { \frac {1}{x} \,dx} \\ \end{align*}

\[ \ln \left (u \left (x \right )\right )=\ln \left (x \right )+c_1 \]

Taking the exponential of both sides the solution becomes

\[ u \left (x \right ) = c_1 x \]

We now need to find the singular solutions, these are found by finding for what values \(g(u)\) is zero, since we had to divide by this above. Solving \(g(u)=0\) or

\[ u=0 \]

for \(u \left (x \right )\) gives

\begin{align*} u \left (x \right )&=0 \end{align*}

Now we go over each such singular solution and check if it verifies the ode itself and any initial conditions given. If it does not then the singular solution will not be used.

Therefore the solutions found are

\begin{align*} u \left (x \right ) &= c_1 x \\ u \left (x \right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Converting \(u \left (x \right ) = c_1 x\) back to \(y\) gives

\begin{align*} y = c_1 \,x^{2} \end{align*}

Converting \(u \left (x \right ) = 0\) back to \(y\) gives

\begin{align*} y = 0 \end{align*}

Solving for initial conditions the solution is

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ y &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Solutions plot	Slope field \(y^{\prime } = \frac {2 y}{x}\)

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= 0 \\ y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

2.1.12.6 Solved using first_order_ode_homog_type_D2

0.365 (sec)

Entering first order ode homog type D2 solver

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x} \\ y \left (0\right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Applying change of variables \(y = u \left (x \right ) x\), then the ode becomes

\begin{align*} u^{\prime }\left (x \right ) x +u \left (x \right ) = 2 u \left (x \right ) \end{align*}

Which is now solved The ode

\begin{equation} u^{\prime }\left (x \right ) = \frac {u \left (x \right )}{x} \end{equation}

is separable as it can be written as

\begin{align*} u^{\prime }\left (x \right )&= \frac {u \left (x \right )}{x}\\ &= f(x) g(u) \end{align*}

Where

\begin{align*} f(x) &= \frac {1}{x}\\ g(u) &= u \end{align*}

Integrating gives

\begin{align*} \int { \frac {1}{g(u)} \,du} &= \int { f(x) \,dx} \\ \int { \frac {1}{u}\,du} &= \int { \frac {1}{x} \,dx} \\ \end{align*}

\[ \ln \left (u \left (x \right )\right )=\ln \left (x \right )+c_1 \]

Taking the exponential of both sides the solution becomes

\[ u \left (x \right ) = c_1 x \]

We now need to find the singular solutions, these are found by finding for what values \(g(u)\) is zero, since we had to divide by this above. Solving \(g(u)=0\) or

\[ u=0 \]

for \(u \left (x \right )\) gives

\begin{align*} u \left (x \right )&=0 \end{align*}

Now we go over each such singular solution and check if it verifies the ode itself and any initial conditions given. If it does not then the singular solution will not be used.

Therefore the solutions found are

\begin{align*} u \left (x \right ) &= c_1 x \\ u \left (x \right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Converting \(u \left (x \right ) = c_1 x\) back to \(y\) gives

\begin{align*} y = c_1 \,x^{2} \end{align*}

Converting \(u \left (x \right ) = 0\) back to \(y\) gives

\begin{align*} y = 0 \end{align*}

Solving for initial conditions the solution is

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ y &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Solutions plot	Slope field \(y^{\prime } = \frac {2 y}{x}\)

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= 0 \\ y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

2.1.12.7 Solved using first_order_ode_homog_type_G

0.397 (sec)

Entering first order ode homog type G solver

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x} \\ y \left (0\right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Multiplying the right side of the ode, which is \(\frac {2 y}{x}\) by \(\frac {x}{y}\) gives

\begin{align*} y^{\prime } &= \left (\frac {x}{y}\right ) \frac {2 y}{x}\\ &= 2\\ &= F(x,y) \end{align*}

Since \(F \left (x , y\right )\) does not have \(y\) and does not have \(x\) then

\begin{align*} \alpha &= 0 \end{align*}

Since \(\alpha \) is independent of \(x,y\) then this is Homogeneous type G.

Let

\begin{align*} y&=\frac {z}{x^ \alpha }\\ &=\frac {z}{1} \end{align*}

Substituting the above back into \(F(x,y)\) gives

\begin{align*} F \left (z \right ) &=2 \end{align*}

We see that \(F \left (z \right )\) does not depend on \(x\) nor on \(y\). If this was not the case, then this method will not work.

Therefore, the implicit solution is given by

\begin{align*} \ln \left (x \right )- c_1 - \int ^{y x^\alpha } \frac {1}{z \left (\alpha + F(z)\right ) } \,dz & = 0 \end{align*}

Which gives

\[ \ln \left (x \right )-c_1 +\int _{}^{y}-\frac {1}{2 z}d z = 0 \]

The value of the above is

\[ \ln \left (x \right )-c_1 -\frac {\ln \left (y\right )}{2} = 0 \]

Solving for \(y\) gives

\begin{align*} y &= {\mathrm e}^{-2 c_1} x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

Solving for initial conditions the solution is

\begin{align*} y &= {\mathrm e}^{-2 c_1} x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

Figure 2.32: Slope field \(y^{\prime } = \frac {2 y}{x}\)

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= {\mathrm e}^{-2 c_1} x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

2.1.12.8 Solved using first_order_ode_homog_type_maple_C

1.287 (sec)

Entering first order ode homog type maple C solver

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x} \\ y \left (0\right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Let \(Y = y -y_{0}\) and \(X = x -x_{0}\) then the above is transformed to new ode in \(Y(X)\)

\[ \frac {d}{d X}Y \left (X \right ) = \frac {2 Y \left (X \right )+2 y_{0}}{X +x_{0}} \]

Solving for possible values of \(x_{0}\) and \(y_{0}\) which makes the above ode a homogeneous ode results in

\begin{align*} x_{0}&=0\\ y_{0}&=0 \end{align*}

Using these values now it is possible to easily solve for \(Y \left (X \right )\). The above ode now becomes

\begin{align*} \frac {d}{d X}Y \left (X \right ) = \frac {2 Y \left (X \right )}{X} \end{align*}

In canonical form, the ODE is

\begin{align*} Y' &= F(X,Y)\\ &= \frac {2 Y}{X}\tag {1} \end{align*}

An ode of the form \(Y' = \frac {M(X,Y)}{N(X,Y)}\) is called homogeneous if the functions \(M(X,Y)\) and \(N(X,Y)\) are both homogeneous functions and of the same order. Recall that a function \(f(X,Y)\) is homogeneous of order \(n\) if

\[ f(t^n X, t^n Y)= t^n f(X,Y) \]

In this case, it can be seen that both \(M=2 Y\) and \(N=X\) are both homogeneous and of the same order \(n=1\). Therefore this is a homogeneous ode. Since this ode is homogeneous, it is converted to separable ODE using the substitution \(u=\frac {Y}{X}\), or \(Y=uX\). Hence

\[ \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}Y}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}X}}= \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}u}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}X}}X + u \]

Applying the transformation \(Y=uX\) to the above ODE in (1) gives

\begin{align*} \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}u}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}X}}X + u &= 2 u\\ \frac { \mathop {\mathrm {d}u}}{\mathop {\mathrm {d}X}} &= \frac {u \left (X \right )}{X} \end{align*}

Or

\[ \frac {d}{d X}u \left (X \right )-\frac {u \left (X \right )}{X} = 0 \]

Or

\[ \left (\frac {d}{d X}u \left (X \right )\right ) X -u \left (X \right ) = 0 \]

Which is now solved as separable in \(u \left (X \right )\).

The ode

\begin{equation} \frac {d}{d X}u \left (X \right ) = \frac {u \left (X \right )}{X} \end{equation}

is separable as it can be written as

\begin{align*} \frac {d}{d X}u \left (X \right )&= \frac {u \left (X \right )}{X}\\ &= f(X) g(u) \end{align*}

Where

\begin{align*} f(X) &= \frac {1}{X}\\ g(u) &= u \end{align*}

Integrating gives

\begin{align*} \int { \frac {1}{g(u)} \,du} &= \int { f(X) \,dX} \\ \int { \frac {1}{u}\,du} &= \int { \frac {1}{X} \,dX} \\ \end{align*}

\[ \ln \left (u \left (X \right )\right )=\ln \left (X \right )+c_1 \]

Taking the exponential of both sides the solution becomes

\[ u \left (X \right ) = c_1 X \]

We now need to find the singular solutions, these are found by finding for what values \(g(u)\) is zero, since we had to divide by this above. Solving \(g(u)=0\) or

\[ u=0 \]

for \(u \left (X \right )\) gives

\begin{align*} u \left (X \right )&=0 \end{align*}

Now we go over each such singular solution and check if it verifies the ode itself and any initial conditions given. If it does not then the singular solution will not be used.

Therefore the solutions found are

\begin{align*} u \left (X \right ) &= c_1 X \\ u \left (X \right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Converting \(u \left (X \right ) = c_1 X\) back to \(Y \left (X \right )\) gives

\begin{align*} Y \left (X \right ) = X^{2} c_1 \end{align*}

Converting \(u \left (X \right ) = 0\) back to \(Y \left (X \right )\) gives

\begin{align*} Y \left (X \right ) = 0 \end{align*}

Using the solution for \(Y(X)\)

\begin{align*} Y \left (X \right ) = X^{2} c_1\tag {A} \end{align*}

And replacing back terms in the above solution using

\begin{align*} Y &= y +y_{0}\\ X &= x +x_{0} \end{align*}

Or

\begin{align*} Y &= y\\ X &= x \end{align*}

Then the solution in \(y\) becomes using EQ (A)

\begin{align*} y = c_1 \,x^{2} \end{align*}

Using the solution for \(Y(X)\)

\begin{align*} Y \left (X \right ) = 0\tag {A} \end{align*}

And replacing back terms in the above solution using

\begin{align*} Y &= y +y_{0}\\ X &= x +x_{0} \end{align*}

Or

\begin{align*} Y &= y\\ X &= x \end{align*}

Then the solution in \(y\) becomes using EQ (A)

\begin{align*} y = 0 \end{align*}

Solving for initial conditions the solution is

\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ y &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Solutions plot	Slope field \(y^{\prime } = \frac {2 y}{x}\)

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= 0 \\ y &= c_1 \,x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

2.1.12.9 Solved using first_order_ode_LIE

1.125 (sec)

Entering first order ode LIE solver

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x} \\ y \left (0\right ) &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Writing the ode as

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\frac {2 y}{x}\\ y^{\prime }&= \omega \left ( x,y\right ) \end{align*}

The condition of Lie symmetry is the linearized PDE given by

\begin{align*} \eta _{x}+\omega \left ( \eta _{y}-\xi _{x}\right ) -\omega ^{2}\xi _{y}-\omega _{x}\xi -\omega _{y}\eta =0\tag {A} \end{align*}

To determine \(\xi ,\eta \) then (A) is solved using ansatz. Making bivariate polynomials of degree 1 to use as anstaz gives

\begin{align*} \tag{1E} \xi &= x a_{2}+y a_{3}+a_{1} \\ \tag{2E} \eta &= x b_{2}+y b_{3}+b_{1} \\ \end{align*}

Where the unknown coefficients are

\[ \{a_{1}, a_{2}, a_{3}, b_{1}, b_{2}, b_{3}\} \]

Substituting equations (1E,2E) and \(\omega \) into (A) gives

\begin{equation} \tag{5E} b_{2}+\frac {2 y \left (b_{3}-a_{2}\right )}{x}-\frac {4 y^{2} a_{3}}{x^{2}}+\frac {2 y \left (x a_{2}+y a_{3}+a_{1}\right )}{x^{2}}-\frac {2 \left (x b_{2}+y b_{3}+b_{1}\right )}{x} = 0 \end{equation}

Putting the above in normal form gives

\[ -\frac {b_{2} x^{2}+2 y^{2} a_{3}+2 x b_{1}-2 y a_{1}}{x^{2}} = 0 \]

Setting the numerator to zero gives

\begin{equation} \tag{6E} -b_{2} x^{2}-2 y^{2} a_{3}-2 x b_{1}+2 y a_{1} = 0 \end{equation}

Looking at the above PDE shows the following are all the terms with \(\{x, y\}\) in them.

\[ \{x, y\} \]

The following substitution is now made to be able to collect on all terms with \(\{x, y\}\) in them

\[ \{x = v_{1}, y = v_{2}\} \]

The above PDE (6E) now becomes

\begin{equation} \tag{7E} -2 a_{3} v_{2}^{2}-b_{2} v_{1}^{2}+2 a_{1} v_{2}-2 b_{1} v_{1} = 0 \end{equation}

Collecting the above on the terms \(v_i\) introduced, and these are

\[ \{v_{1}, v_{2}\} \]

Equation (7E) now becomes

\begin{equation} \tag{8E} -2 a_{3} v_{2}^{2}-b_{2} v_{1}^{2}+2 a_{1} v_{2}-2 b_{1} v_{1} = 0 \end{equation}

Setting each coefficients in (8E) to zero gives the following equations to solve

\begin{align*} 2 a_{1}&=0\\ -2 a_{3}&=0\\ -2 b_{1}&=0\\ -b_{2}&=0 \end{align*}

Solving the above equations for the unknowns gives

\begin{align*} a_{1}&=0\\ a_{2}&=a_{2}\\ a_{3}&=0\\ b_{1}&=0\\ b_{2}&=0\\ b_{3}&=b_{3} \end{align*}

Substituting the above solution in the anstaz (1E,2E) (using \(1\) as arbitrary value for any unknown in the RHS) gives

\begin{align*} \xi &= 0 \\ \eta &= y \\ \end{align*}

The next step is to determine the canonical coordinates \(R,S\). The canonical coordinates map \(\left ( x,y\right ) \to \left ( R,S \right )\) where \(\left ( R,S \right )\) are the canonical coordinates which make the original ode become a quadrature and hence solved by integration.

The characteristic pde which is used to find the canonical coordinates is

\begin{align*} \frac {d x}{\xi } &= \frac {d y}{\eta } = dS \tag {1} \end{align*}

The above comes from the requirements that \(\left ( \xi \frac {\partial }{\partial x} + \eta \frac {\partial }{\partial y}\right ) S(x,y) = 1\). Starting with the first pair of ode’s in (1) gives an ode to solve for the independent variable \(R\) in the canonical coordinates, where \(S(R)\). Since \(\xi =0\) then in this special case

\begin{align*} R = x \end{align*}

\(S\) is found from

\begin{align*} S &= \int { \frac {1}{\eta }} dy\\ &= \int { \frac {1}{y}} dy \end{align*}

Which results in

\begin{align*} S&= \ln \left (y \right ) \end{align*}

Now that \(R,S\) are found, we need to setup the ode in these coordinates. This is done by evaluating

\begin{align*} \frac {dS}{dR} &= \frac { S_{x} + \omega (x,y) S_{y} }{ R_{x} + \omega (x,y) R_{y} }\tag {2} \end{align*}

Where in the above \(R_{x},R_{y},S_{x},S_{y}\) are all partial derivatives and \(\omega (x,y)\) is the right hand side of the original ode given by

\begin{align*} \omega (x,y) &= \frac {2 y}{x} \end{align*}

Evaluating all the partial derivatives gives

\begin{align*} R_{x} &= 1\\ R_{y} &= 0\\ S_{x} &= 0\\ S_{y} &= \frac {1}{y} \end{align*}

Substituting all the above in (2) and simplifying gives the ode in canonical coordinates.

\begin{align*} \frac {dS}{dR} &= \frac {2}{x}\tag {2A} \end{align*}

We now need to express the RHS as function of \(R\) only. This is done by solving for \(x,y\) in terms of \(R,S\) from the result obtained earlier and simplifying. This gives

\begin{align*} \frac {dS}{dR} &= \frac {2}{R} \end{align*}

The above is a quadrature ode. This is the whole point of Lie symmetry method. It converts an ode, no matter how complicated it is, to one that can be solved by integration when the ode is in the canonical coordiates \(R,S\).

Since the ode has the form \(\frac {d}{d R}S \left (R \right )=f(R)\), then we only need to integrate \(f(R)\).

\begin{align*} \int {dS} &= \int {\frac {2}{R}\, dR}\\ S \left (R \right ) &= 2 \ln \left (R \right ) + c_2 \end{align*}

\begin{align*} S \left (R \right )&= 2 \ln \left (R \right )+c_2 \end{align*}

To complete the solution, we just need to transform the above back to \(x,y\) coordinates. This results in

\begin{align*} \ln \left (y\right ) = 2 \ln \left (x \right )+c_2 \end{align*}

The following diagram shows solution curves of the original ode and how they transform in the canonical coordinates space using the mapping shown.

Original ode in \(x,y\) coordinates	Canonical coordinates transformation	ODE in canonical coordinates \((R,S)\)
\( \frac {dy}{dx} = \frac {2 y}{x}\)		\( \frac {d S}{d R} = \frac {2}{R}\)
	\(\!\begin {aligned} R&= x\\ S&= \ln \left (y \right ) \end {aligned} \)

Solving for \(y\) gives

\begin{align*} y &= {\mathrm e}^{c_2} x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

Solving for initial conditions the solution is

\begin{align*} y &= {\mathrm e}^{c_2} x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

Figure 2.33: Slope field \(y^{\prime } = \frac {2 y}{x}\)

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= {\mathrm e}^{c_2} x^{2} \\ \end{align*}

2.1.12.10 ✓ Maple. Time used: 0.025 (sec). Leaf size: 9

ode:=diff(y(x),x) = 2*y(x)/x; 
ic:=[y(0) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = c_1 \,x^{2} \]

Maple trace

Methods for first order ODEs: 
--- Trying classification methods --- 
trying a quadrature 
trying 1st order linear 
<- 1st order linear successful
 

Maple step by step

\[ \begin {array}{lll} & {} & \textrm {Let's solve}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \left [\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )=\frac {2 y \left (x \right )}{x}, y \left (0\right )=0\right ] \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Highest derivative means the order of the ODE is}\hspace {3pt} 1 \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right ) \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solve for the highest derivative}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )=\frac {2 y \left (x \right )}{x} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Separate variables}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )}{y \left (x \right )}=\frac {2}{x} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Integrate both sides with respect to}\hspace {3pt} x \\ {} & {} & \int \frac {\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )}{y \left (x \right )}d x =\int \frac {2}{x}d x +\mathit {C1} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Evaluate integral}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \ln \left (y \left (x \right )\right )=2 \ln \left (x \right )+\mathit {C1} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solve for}\hspace {3pt} y \left (x \right ) \\ {} & {} & y \left (x \right )={\mathrm e}^{\mathit {C1}} x^{2} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Redefine the integration constant(s)}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & y \left (x \right )=\mathit {C1} \,x^{2} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Use initial condition}\hspace {3pt} y \left (0\right )=0 \\ {} & {} & 0=0 \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solve for}\hspace {3pt} \textit {\_C1} \\ {} & {} & \mathit {C1} =\mathit {C1} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Substitute}\hspace {3pt} \textit {\_C1} =\textit {\_C1} \hspace {3pt}\textrm {into general solution and simplify}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & y \left (x \right )=\mathit {C1} \,x^{2} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solution to the IVP}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & y \left (x \right )=\mathit {C1} \,x^{2} \end {array} \]

2.1.12.11 ✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 6

ode=D[y[x],x] == 2*y[x]/x; 
ic=y[0]==0; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to 0 \end{align*}

2.1.12.12 ✗ Sympy

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

ValueError : Couldnt solve for initial conditions