60.1.45 problem Problem 59

Internal problem ID [15173]
Book : Differential equations and the calculus of variations by L. ElSGOLTS. MIR PUBLISHERS, MOSCOW, Third printing 1977.
Section : Chapter 1, First-Order Differential Equations. Problems page 88
Problem number : Problem 59
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 10:06:40 AM
CAS classification : [_linear]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 16

ode:=(x^2-1)*diff(y(x),x)+2*x*y(x)-cos(x) = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {\sin \left (x \right )+c_1}{x^{2}-1} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.022 (sec). Leaf size: 18

ode=(x^2-1)*D[y[x],x]+2*x*y[x]-Cos[x]==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {\sin (x)+c_1}{x^2-1} \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.217 (sec). Leaf size: 12

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(2*x*y(x) + (x**2 - 1)*Derivative(y(x), x) - cos(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {C_{1} + \sin {\left (x \right )}}{x^{2} - 1} \]