23.1.338 problem 324

Internal problem ID [4945]
Book : Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section : Part II. Chapter 1. THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION IS OF FIRST ORDER AND OF FIRST DEGREE, page 223
Problem number : 324
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 09:03:39 AM
CAS classification : [[_homogeneous, `class C`], _rational, _Riccati]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.157 (sec). Leaf size: 34

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

\[ y = \frac {\left (c_1 k \left (-x +a \right )-1\right ) \left (-x +a \right )}{-1+\left (k +1\right ) \left (-x +a \right ) c_1} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.146 (sec). Leaf size: 50

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {k (a-x)}{k+1}+\frac {1}{\frac {k+1}{a-x}+c_1}\\ y(x)&\to \frac {k (a-x)}{k+1} \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 1.230 (sec). Leaf size: 54

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

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