Ordinary Differential Equations/Riccati

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The Riccati Equation

is different from the previous differential equations because, in general, the solution is not expressible in terms of elementary integrals.

However, we can obtain a general solution from a single particular solution when one is known.

Let be a particular solution, and let

so that the equation becomes


which is a Bernoulli equation.