23.2.174 problem 178

Internal problem ID [5529]
Book : Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section : Part II. Chapter 2. THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION IS OF FIRST ORDER AND OF SECOND OR HIGHER DEGREE, page 278
Problem number : 178
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 12:50:31 PM
CAS classification : [[_homogeneous, `class A`], _rational, _dAlembert]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.047 (sec). Leaf size: 106

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

\begin{align*} y &= \sqrt {-a}\, x \\ y &= -\sqrt {-a}\, x \\ y &= \operatorname {RootOf}\left (-\ln \left (x \right )-\int _{}^{\textit {\_Z}}\frac {\sqrt {\left (a -1\right ) \left (\textit {\_a}^{2}+a \right ) a}}{\left (a -1\right ) \left (\textit {\_a}^{2}+a \right )}d \textit {\_a} +c_1 \right ) x \\ y &= \operatorname {RootOf}\left (-\ln \left (x \right )+\int _{}^{\textit {\_Z}}\frac {\sqrt {\left (a -1\right ) \left (\textit {\_a}^{2}+a \right ) a}}{\left (a -1\right ) \left (\textit {\_a}^{2}+a \right )}d \textit {\_a} +c_1 \right ) x \\ \end{align*}

✗ Mathematica

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

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✓ Sympy. Time used: 11.484 (sec). Leaf size: 673

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

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