16.3 problem 4

Internal problem ID [6403]

Book: Differential Equations: Theory, Technique, and Practice by George Simmons, Steven Krantz. McGraw-Hill NY. 2007. 1st Edition.
Section: Chapter 2. Problems for Review and Discovery. Problems for Discussion and Exploration. Page 105
Problem number: 4.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1]]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime \prime }+\sin \left (y\right )=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.015 (sec). Leaf size: 47

dsolve(diff(y(x),x$2)+sin(y(x))=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 3.86 (sec). Leaf size: 69

DSolve[y''[x]+Sin[y[x]]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to -2 \operatorname {JacobiAmplitude}\left (\frac {1}{2} \sqrt {(c_1+2) (x+c_2){}^2},\frac {4}{c_1+2}\right ) \\ y(x)\to 2 \operatorname {JacobiAmplitude}\left (\frac {1}{2} \sqrt {(c_1+2) (x+c_2){}^2},\frac {4}{c_1+2}\right ) \\ \end{align*}