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Question: How to check that dsolve was successful?

Question:How to check that dsolve was successful?

nm 11353
December 25 2014
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I am also not sure how to program a check in the code to determine that dsolve solved the differential equation.

For example

ode:=diff(y(x),x)-a*(x^n-x)*y(x)^3-y(x)^2=0;
sol:=dsolve(ode,y(x));

In this case, sol is () as it could not solve it. When I tried odetest, I get an error

odetest(sol,ode);

Error, invalid input: odetest uses a 2nd argument, ODE, which is missing

What is the correct way to check dsolve was successful that will work for all cases? I am looking for programmable method, no GUI use.

 

 

 

 
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