60.7.17 problem 1607 (6.17)

Internal problem ID [11606]
Book : Differential Gleichungen, E. Kamke, 3rd ed. Chelsea Pub. NY, 1948
Section : Chapter 6, non-linear second order
Problem number : 1607 (6.17)
Date solved : Monday, January 27, 2025 at 11:24:43 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+a \sin \left (y\right )&=0 \end{align*}

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.023 (sec). Leaf size: 49

dsolve(diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+a*sin(y(x))=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 
\begin{align*} \int _{}^{y}\frac {1}{\sqrt {2 a \cos \left (\textit {\_a} \right )+c_{1}}}d \textit {\_a} -x -c_{2} &= 0 \\ -\int _{}^{y}\frac {1}{\sqrt {2 a \cos \left (\textit {\_a} \right )+c_{1}}}d \textit {\_a} -x -c_{2} &= 0 \\ \end{align*}

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.036 (sec). Leaf size: 43

DSolve[a*Sin[y[x]] + D[y[x],{x,2}] == 0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 
\[ \text {Solve}\left [\int _1^{y(x)}\frac {1}{\sqrt {c_1+2 \int _1^{K[2]}-a \sin (K[1])dK[1]}}dK[2]{}^2=(x+c_2){}^2,y(x)\right ] \]