Question
Prove that $\text{x}^2-\text{y}^2=\text{c}(\text{x}^2+\text{y}^2)^2$ is the general solution of differential equation $(\text{x}^3-3\text{x y}^2) \text{dx}=(\text{y}^3-3\text{x}^2\text{y})\text{dy, where c}$ is a parameter.

Answer

$\text{Here},\ \ \text{x}^2-\text{y}^2=\text{c}(\text{x}^2+\text{y}^2)^2\ \ ...{(1)}$
Differentiating w.r.t.x, we get,
$2\text{x}-2\text{y}\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}=2\text{c}(\text{x}^2+\text{y}^2).\Big[2\text{x}+2\text{y}\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}\Big]$
$\text{x}-\text{y}\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}=2\text{c}(\text{x}^2+\text{y}^2).\Big[\text{x}+\text{y}\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}\Big]\ \ ...(2)$
Dividing (2) by (1), we get.
$\frac{\text{x}-\text{y}\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}}{\text{x}^2-\text{y}^2}=\frac{2\Big(\text{x}+\text{y}\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}\Big)}{\text{x}^2+\text{y}^2}$
$\therefore\ \ ​​\text{x}(\text{x}^2+\text{y}^2)-\text{y}(\text{x}^2+\text{y}^2)\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}$ $=2\text{x}(\text{x}^2-\text{y}^2)+2\text{y}(\text{x}^2-\text{y}^2)\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}$
$\therefore\ \ \big[2\text{y}(\text{x}^2-\text{y}^2)+\text{y}(\text{x}^2+\text{y}^2)\big]\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}$ $=\text{x}(\text{x}^2+\text{y}^2)-2\text{x}(\text{x}^2-\text{y}^2)$
$\therefore\ \ (2\text{x}^2\text{y}-2\text{y}^3+\text{x}^2\text{y}+\text{y}^3)\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}$ $=\text{x}^3+\text{xy}^2-2\text{x}^3+2\text{xy}^2$
$\therefore\ \ (3\text{x}^2\text{y}-\text{y}^3)\frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}=3\text{xy}^2-\text{x}^3$
$\therefore\ \ \frac{\text{dy}}{\text{dx}}=\frac{\text{x}^3-3\text{xy}^2}{\text{y}^3-3\text{x}^2\text{y}}$ which is the required equation.
Hence the result.

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