Internal problem ID [4653]
Book: Ordinary Differential Equations, By Tenenbaum and Pollard. Dover, NY 1963
Section: Chapter 8. Special second order equations. Lesson 35. Independent variable x
absent
Problem number: Exercise 35.3, page 504.
ODE order: 2.
ODE degree: 1.
CAS Maple gives this as type [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1]]
\[ \boxed {y y^{\prime \prime }-{y^{\prime }}^{2}=-1} \]
✓ Solution by Maple
Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 59
dsolve(y(x)*diff(y(x),x$2)=(diff(y(x),x))^2-1,y(x), singsol=all)
\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) &= \frac {c_{1} \left (-{\mathrm e}^{\frac {c_{2} +x}{c_{1}}}+{\mathrm e}^{\frac {-c_{2} -x}{c_{1}}}\right )}{2} \\ y \left (x \right ) &= -\frac {c_{1} \left (-{\mathrm e}^{\frac {c_{2} +x}{c_{1}}}+{\mathrm e}^{\frac {-c_{2} -x}{c_{1}}}\right )}{2} \\ \end{align*}
✓ Solution by Mathematica
Time used: 60.201 (sec). Leaf size: 85
DSolve[y[x]*y''[x]==(y'[x])^2-1,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
\begin{align*} y(x)\to -\frac {i e^{-c_1} \tanh \left (e^{c_1} (x+c_2)\right )}{\sqrt {-\text {sech}^2\left (e^{c_1} (x+c_2)\right )}} \\ y(x)\to \frac {i e^{-c_1} \tanh \left (e^{c_1} (x+c_2)\right )}{\sqrt {-\text {sech}^2\left (e^{c_1} (x+c_2)\right )}} \\ \end{align*}