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Homework Statement
x2y1+xyy1-6y2=0
find solution for this differential equation.
y1 mean dy/dx
How to do this question. I have no idea.
x2y1+xyy1-6y2=0
Stephen Tashi said:[tex] x^2 \frac{dy}{dx} + xy\frac{dy}{dx} - 6y^2 = 0 [/tex]
I don't know how to do it systematically, but one may reason about it.
If we assume [itex] y [/itex] is an nth degree polynomial in x, the degrees of the 3 terms are n+1, 2n, 2n. For the terms to cancel, we need n+1 = 2n, so n = 1.
So try letting [itex] y = Cx + D [/itex] and solve for [itex]C[/itex] and [itex]D[/itex].
If there is a "proper" way of doing it, I hope someone tells us.
Ray Vickson said:Maple 14 gets the solution as
y = (x/5)*[1+Z(z)^5], where Z(x) is a solution of the equation 5z^6 - cxz^5 - cx=0, and c is an arbitrary constant.
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