D'Alembert's equation

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In mathematics, d'Alembert's equation, sometimes also known as Lagrange's equation,^[1] is a first order nonlinear ordinary differential equation, named after the French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert. The equation reads as^[2]

${\displaystyle y=xf\left({\frac {dy}{dx}}\right)+g\left({\frac {dy}{dx}}\right).}$

After differentiating once, and rearranging with ${\displaystyle p=dy/dx}$, we have

${\displaystyle {\frac {dx}{dp}}+{\frac {xf'(p)+g'(p)}{f(p)-p}}=0}$

The above equation is linear. When ${\displaystyle f(p)=p}$, d'Alembert's equation is reduced to Clairaut's equation.

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