67.17.29 problem 29

Internal problem ID [16850]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section : Chapter 25. Review exercises for part III. page 447
Problem number : 29
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 01:39:42 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_y]]

\begin{align*} x y^{\prime \prime }&=3 y^{\prime } \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 11
ode:=x*diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = 3*diff(y(x),x); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = c_2 \,x^{4}+c_1 \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.007 (sec). Leaf size: 17
ode=x*D[y[x],{x,2}]==3*D[y[x],x]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {c_1 x^4}{4}+c_2 \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.069 (sec). Leaf size: 8
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(x*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 3*Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} + C_{2} x^{4} \]