77.1.82 problem 108 (page 162)

Internal problem ID [17893]
Book : V.V. Stepanov, A course of differential equations (in Russian), GIFML. Moscow (1958)
Section : All content
Problem number : 108 (page 162)
Date solved : Thursday, March 13, 2025 at 11:09:17 AM
CAS classification : [[_3rd_order, _missing_x], [_3rd_order, _missing_y], [_3rd_order, _with_linear_symmetries], [_3rd_order, _reducible, _mu_y2]]

\begin{align*} a^{3} y^{\prime \prime \prime } y^{\prime \prime }&=\sqrt {1+c^{2} {y^{\prime \prime }}^{2}} \end{align*}

Maple. Time used: 0.402 (sec). Leaf size: 221
ode:=a^3*diff(diff(diff(y(x),x),x),x)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = (1+c^2*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)^2)^(1/2); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\begin{align*} y &= -\frac {i x^{2}}{2 c}+c_{1} x +c_{2} \\ y &= \frac {i x^{2}}{2 c}+c_{1} x +c_{2} \\ y &= \frac {-\int \left (a^{6} \ln \left (\sqrt {\left (x +c_{1} \right )^{2} c^{4}-a^{6}}+\left (x +c_{1} \right ) c^{2} \operatorname {csgn}\left (c^{2}\right )\right ) \operatorname {csgn}\left (c^{2}\right )-c^{2} \sqrt {\left (x +c_{1} \right )^{2} c^{4}-a^{6}}\, \left (x +c_{1} \right )\right )d x +\left (2 c_{2} x +2 c_{3} \right ) c^{3} a^{3}}{2 a^{3} c^{3}} \\ y &= \frac {\int \left (a^{6} \ln \left (\sqrt {\left (x +c_{1} \right )^{2} c^{4}-a^{6}}+\left (x +c_{1} \right ) c^{2} \operatorname {csgn}\left (c^{2}\right )\right ) \operatorname {csgn}\left (c^{2}\right )-c^{2} \sqrt {\left (x +c_{1} \right )^{2} c^{4}-a^{6}}\, \left (x +c_{1} \right )\right )d x +\left (2 c_{2} x +2 c_{3} \right ) c^{3} a^{3}}{2 a^{3} c^{3}} \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 25.445 (sec). Leaf size: 438
ode=a^3*D[y[x],{x,3}]*D[y[x],{x,2}]== Sqrt[1+c^2* D[y[x],{x,2}]^2]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)\to \frac {\sqrt {a^6 \left (-1+c^4 c_1{}^2\right )+2 a^3 c^4 c_1 x+c^4 x^2} \left (a^6 \left (2+c^4 c_1{}^2\right )+2 a^3 c^4 c_1 x+c^4 x^2\right )-3 a^6 c^2 x \log \left (c^2 \left (c^2 \left (x+a^3 c_1\right )+\sqrt {a^6 \left (-1+c^4 c_1{}^2\right )+2 a^3 c^4 c_1 x+c^4 x^2}\right )\right )-3 a^9 c^2 c_1 \log \left (c^2 \left (x+a^3 c_1\right )+\sqrt {a^6 \left (-1+c^4 c_1{}^2\right )+2 a^3 c^4 c_1 x+c^4 x^2}\right )}{6 a^3 c^5}+c_3 x+c_2 \\ y(x)\to \frac {-\sqrt {a^6 \left (-1+c^4 c_1{}^2\right )+2 a^3 c^4 c_1 x+c^4 x^2} \left (a^6 \left (2+c^4 c_1{}^2\right )+2 a^3 c^4 c_1 x+c^4 x^2\right )+3 a^6 c^2 x \log \left (c^2 \left (c^2 \left (x+a^3 c_1\right )+\sqrt {a^6 \left (-1+c^4 c_1{}^2\right )+2 a^3 c^4 c_1 x+c^4 x^2}\right )\right )+3 a^9 c^2 c_1 \log \left (c^2 \left (x+a^3 c_1\right )+\sqrt {a^6 \left (-1+c^4 c_1{}^2\right )+2 a^3 c^4 c_1 x+c^4 x^2}\right )}{6 a^3 c^5}+c_3 x+c_2 \\ \end{align*}
Sympy
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
a = symbols("a") 
c = symbols("c") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(a**3*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2))*Derivative(y(x), (x, 3)) - sqrt(c**2*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2))**2 + 1),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
ODEMatchError : nth_linear_constant_coeff_undetermined_coefficients solver cannot solve: 
nan