77.30.8 problem 8

Internal problem ID [20672]
Book : A Text book for differentional equations for postgraduate students by Ray and Chaturvedi. First edition, 1958. BHASKAR press. INDIA
Section : Chapter VII. Exact differential equations and certain particular forms of equations. Exercise VII (D) at page 109
Problem number : 8
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 06:18:18 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_y]]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 61

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

\[ y = -\frac {-2 \sqrt {x +1}\, \left (a x +c_2 \right ) \sqrt {x -1}+\left (-x^{3}+\ln \left (x +\sqrt {x^{2}-1}\right ) \sqrt {x^{2}-1}+x \right ) c_1}{2 \sqrt {x +1}\, \sqrt {x -1}} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.081 (sec). Leaf size: 45

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to a x-\frac {1}{2} c_1 \text {arctanh}\left (\frac {x}{\sqrt {x^2-1}}\right )+\frac {1}{2} c_1 \sqrt {x^2-1} x+c_2 \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.327 (sec). Leaf size: 31

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

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} + C_{2} \left (x \sqrt {x^{2} - 1} - \log {\left (x + \sqrt {x^{2} - 1} \right )}\right ) + a x \]