71.1.55 problem 74 (page 112)

Internal problem ID [19231]
Book : V.V. Stepanov, A course of differential equations (in Russian), GIFML. Moscow (1958)
Section : All content
Problem number : 74 (page 112)
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 03:46:59 PM
CAS classification : [_quadrature]

\begin{align*} y \left (1+{y^{\prime }}^{2}\right )&=2 \alpha \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.050 (sec). Leaf size: 325
ode:=y(x)*(1+diff(y(x),x)^2) = 2*alpha; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\begin{align*} \text {Solution too large to show}\end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 0.443 (sec). Leaf size: 108
ode=y[x]*(1+D[y[x],x]^2)==a; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [-a \arctan \left (\frac {\sqrt {a-\text {$\#$1}}}{\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}}}\right )-\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}} \sqrt {a-\text {$\#$1}}\&\right ][-x+c_1]\\ y(x)&\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [-a \arctan \left (\frac {\sqrt {a-\text {$\#$1}}}{\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}}}\right )-\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}} \sqrt {a-\text {$\#$1}}\&\right ][x+c_1]\\ y(x)&\to a \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 1.188 (sec). Leaf size: 296
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
Alpha = symbols("Alpha") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-2*Alpha + (Derivative(y(x), x)**2 + 1)*y(x),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ \left [ \begin {cases} - \sqrt {2} i \sqrt {\mathrm {A}} \sqrt {-1 + \frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{2 \mathrm {A}}} \sqrt {y{\left (x \right )}} - 2 i \mathrm {A} \operatorname {acosh}{\left (\frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {y{\left (x \right )}}}{2 \sqrt {\mathrm {A}}} \right )} & \text {for}\: \left |{\frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{\mathrm {A}}}\right | > 2 \\- \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {\mathrm {A}} \sqrt {y{\left (x \right )}}}{\sqrt {1 - \frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{2 \mathrm {A}}}} + 2 \mathrm {A} \operatorname {asin}{\left (\frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {y{\left (x \right )}}}{2 \sqrt {\mathrm {A}}} \right )} + \frac {\sqrt {2} y^{\frac {3}{2}}{\left (x \right )}}{2 \sqrt {\mathrm {A}} \sqrt {1 - \frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{2 \mathrm {A}}}} & \text {otherwise} \end {cases} = C_{1} - x, \ \begin {cases} - \sqrt {2} i \sqrt {\mathrm {A}} \sqrt {-1 + \frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{2 \mathrm {A}}} \sqrt {y{\left (x \right )}} - 2 i \mathrm {A} \operatorname {acosh}{\left (\frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {y{\left (x \right )}}}{2 \sqrt {\mathrm {A}}} \right )} & \text {for}\: \left |{\frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{\mathrm {A}}}\right | > 2 \\- \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {\mathrm {A}} \sqrt {y{\left (x \right )}}}{\sqrt {1 - \frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{2 \mathrm {A}}}} + 2 \mathrm {A} \operatorname {asin}{\left (\frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {y{\left (x \right )}}}{2 \sqrt {\mathrm {A}}} \right )} + \frac {\sqrt {2} y^{\frac {3}{2}}{\left (x \right )}}{2 \sqrt {\mathrm {A}} \sqrt {1 - \frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{2 \mathrm {A}}}} & \text {otherwise} \end {cases} = C_{1} + x\right ] \]