Answer to Question #7490 in Differential Equations for noor

Question

Solve differential equation
-xdy/dx+6y=3x(y^4)^1/3

Answer 1

First you need to divide every term in the equation by x:
y'+6/x*y=3y^(4/3)
This equation is often called Bernoulli differential equation. You can find here more sufficient information about it and how to solve it.
Then we divide every term of the equation by y^(4/3):
y^(-4/3)*y'+6/x*y^(-1/3)=3
Now we make a substitution z=y^(-4/3+1)=y^(-1/3) => y=1/z^3, y'=-3/z^4 *z'
So we obtain
-3/z^4*z'*z^4+6/x*z=3
-3z'+6z/x=3
z'-2z/x=-1
z(x)=Cx^2-x
So y=1/z^3=1/(Cx^2-x)