58.12.15 problem 15

Internal problem ID [14800]
Book : Differential Equations by Shepley L. Ross. Third edition. John Willey. New Delhi. 2004.
Section : Chapter 4, Section 4.4. Variation of parameters. Exercises page 162
Problem number : 15
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 09:55:02 AM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _linear, _nonhomogeneous]]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime \prime }+y&=\frac {1}{1+\sin \left (x \right )} \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 29
ode:=diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+y(x) = 1/(1+sin(x)); 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\[ y = \ln \left (1+\sin \left (x \right )\right ) \sin \left (x \right )+\left (-x +c_1 -1\right ) \cos \left (x \right )-1+\left (1+c_2 \right ) \sin \left (x \right ) \]
Mathematica. Time used: 0.099 (sec). Leaf size: 40
ode=D[y[x],{x,2}]+y[x]==1/(1+Sin[x]); 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to (-x+1+c_1) \cos (x)+\sin (x) \left (2 \log \left (\sin \left (\frac {x}{2}\right )+\cos \left (\frac {x}{2}\right )\right )+1+c_2\right )-1 \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.325 (sec). Leaf size: 49
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(y(x) + Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 1/(sin(x) + 1),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \left (C_{1} + \log {\left (\sin {\left (x \right )} + 1 \right )}\right ) \sin {\left (x \right )} + \left (C_{2} - \frac {x \tan {\left (\frac {x}{2} \right )}}{\tan {\left (\frac {x}{2} \right )} + 1} - \frac {x}{\tan {\left (\frac {x}{2} \right )} + 1} - \frac {2}{\tan {\left (\frac {x}{2} \right )} + 1}\right ) \cos {\left (x \right )} \]