Internal problem ID [4891]
Book: Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley.
2006
Section: Chapter 8, Ordinary differential equations. Section 13. Miscellaneous problems. page
466
Problem number: 28.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type
[[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _exact, _nonlinear], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]
\[ \boxed {y y^{\prime \prime }+{y^{\prime }}^{2}=-4} \] With initial conditions \begin {align*} [y \left (1\right ) = 3, y^{\prime }\left (1\right ) = 0] \end {align*}
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.547 (sec). Leaf size: 16
dsolve([y(x)*diff(y(x),x$2)+diff(y(x),x)^2+4=0,y(1) = 3, D(y)(1) = 0],y(x), singsol=all)
\[ y \left (x \right ) = \sqrt {-4 x^{2}+8 x +5} \]
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 31.559 (sec). Leaf size: 19
DSolve[{y[x]*y''[x]+y'[x]^2+4==0,{y[1]==3,y'[1]==0}},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\[ y(x)\to \sqrt {-4 x^2+8 x+5} \]