A third order nonlinear ODE
This ODE is reducible:
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:
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:
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
In this "blackboard" example, dsolve succeeds in solving the reduced_ODE too, as follows:
Passing this solution to buildsol, the general solution to ODE follows: