2.22.27 Problem 32

2.22.27.1 Maple
2.22.27.2 Mathematica
2.22.27.3 Sympy

Internal problem ID [13522]
Book : Handbook of exact solutions for ordinary differential equations. By Polyanin and Zaitsev. Second edition
Section : Chapter 1, section 1.3. Abel Equations of the Second Kind. subsection 1.3.1-2. Solvable equations and their solutions
Problem number : 32
Date solved : Friday, December 19, 2025 at 05:39:07 AM
CAS classification : [_rational, [_Abel, `2nd type`, `class B`]]

\begin{align*} y y^{\prime }-y&=\frac {A}{\sqrt {x}} \\ \end{align*}
Unknown ode type.
2.22.27.1 Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 222
ode:=y(x)*diff(y(x),x)-y(x) = A/x^(1/2); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ \frac {2^{{2}/{3}} \left (\operatorname {AiryBi}\left (-\frac {2^{{1}/{3}} \left (-A^{2} x^{{3}/{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}} \left (-x +y\right )}{2 A^{2} x}\right ) c_1 -\operatorname {AiryAi}\left (-\frac {2^{{1}/{3}} \left (-A^{2} x^{{3}/{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}} \left (-x +y\right )}{2 A^{2} x}\right )\right ) \left (-A^{2} x^{{3}/{2}}\right )^{{1}/{3}}-2 \left (-\operatorname {AiryBi}\left (1, -\frac {2^{{1}/{3}} \left (-A^{2} x^{{3}/{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}} \left (-x +y\right )}{2 A^{2} x}\right ) c_1 +\operatorname {AiryAi}\left (1, -\frac {2^{{1}/{3}} \left (-A^{2} x^{{3}/{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}} \left (-x +y\right )}{2 A^{2} x}\right )\right ) A}{2^{{2}/{3}} \left (-A^{2} x^{{3}/{2}}\right )^{{1}/{3}} \operatorname {AiryBi}\left (-\frac {2^{{1}/{3}} \left (-A^{2} x^{{3}/{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}} \left (-x +y\right )}{2 A^{2} x}\right )+2 \operatorname {AiryBi}\left (1, -\frac {2^{{1}/{3}} \left (-A^{2} x^{{3}/{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}} \left (-x +y\right )}{2 A^{2} x}\right ) A} = 0 \]

Maple trace

Methods for first order ODEs: 
--- Trying classification methods --- 
trying a quadrature 
trying 1st order linear 
trying Bernoulli 
trying separable 
trying inverse linear 
trying homogeneous types: 
trying Chini 
differential order: 1; looking for linear symmetries 
trying exact 
trying Abel 
<- Abel successful
 

Maple step by step

\[ \begin {array}{lll} & {} & \textrm {Let's solve}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & y \left (x \right ) \left (\frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )\right )-y \left (x \right )=\frac {A}{\sqrt {x}} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Highest derivative means the order of the ODE is}\hspace {3pt} 1 \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right ) \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solve for the highest derivative}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d x}y \left (x \right )=\frac {y \left (x \right )+\frac {A}{\sqrt {x}}}{y \left (x \right )} \end {array} \]
2.22.27.2 Mathematica. Time used: 0.179 (sec). Leaf size: 139
ode=y[x]*D[y[x],x]-y[x]==A*x^(-1/2); 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\[ \text {Solve}\left [\frac {\sqrt [3]{-1} 2^{2/3} \sqrt {x} \operatorname {AiryAi}\left (\frac {\left (-\frac {1}{2}\right )^{2/3} (x-y(x))}{A^{2/3}}\right )+2 \sqrt [3]{A} \operatorname {AiryAiPrime}\left (\frac {\left (-\frac {1}{2}\right )^{2/3} (x-y(x))}{A^{2/3}}\right )}{\sqrt [3]{-1} 2^{2/3} \sqrt {x} \operatorname {AiryBi}\left (\frac {\left (-\frac {1}{2}\right )^{2/3} (x-y(x))}{A^{2/3}}\right )+2 \sqrt [3]{A} \operatorname {AiryBiPrime}\left (\frac {\left (-\frac {1}{2}\right )^{2/3} (x-y(x))}{A^{2/3}}\right )}+c_1=0,y(x)\right ] \]
2.22.27.3 Sympy
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
A = symbols("A") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-A/sqrt(x) + y(x)*Derivative(y(x), x) - y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
NotImplementedError : The given ODE -A/(sqrt(x)*y(x)) + Derivative(y(x), x) - 1 cannot be solved by
 
Python version: 3.12.3 (main, Aug 14 2025, 17:47:21) [GCC 13.3.0] 
Sympy version 1.14.0
 
classify_ode(ode,func=y(x)) 
 
('factorable', 'lie_group')