A third order nonlinear ODE
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This ODE is reducible:
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It can be solved by dsolve directly by determining an appropriate integrating factor (see odeadvisor,reducible), but let's consider a possible answer for it as a reduction of order from 3 to 1:
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Test that the above solves the ODE by using odetest:
Now, the reduced ODE is of Bernoulli type, and can be selected using the mouse or through the following commands:
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From the above, it is clear that a particular solution to the reduced_ODE is given by
from which a particular solution to the original ODE above can be built using
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In this "blackboard" example, dsolve succeeds in solving the reduced_ODE too, as follows:
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Passing this solution to buildsol, the general solution to ODE follows:
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