80.8.14 problem 20

Internal problem ID [21371]
Book : A Textbook on Ordinary Differential Equations by Shair Ahmad and Antonio Ambrosetti. Second edition. ISBN 978-3-319-16407-6. Springer 2015
Section : Chapter 8. Qualitative analysis of 2 by 2 systems and nonlinear second order equations. Excercise 8.5 at page 184
Problem number : 20
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 07:29:51 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], _Duffing, [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1]]

\begin{align*} x^{\prime \prime }&=x^{3}-x \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} x \left (0\right )&=0 \\ x^{\prime }\left (0\right )&={\frac {1}{2}} \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.497 (sec). Leaf size: 79

ode:=diff(diff(x(t),t),t) = -x(t)+x(t)^3; 
ic:=[x(0) = 0, D(x)(0) = 1/2]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],x(t), singsol=all);
 

\[ x = \frac {\operatorname {RootOf}\left (\textit {\_Z}^{2}+1-2 \sqrt {2}\, \textit {\_Z} \right ) \sqrt {2}\, \sqrt {-\sqrt {2}\, \operatorname {RootOf}\left (\textit {\_Z}^{2}+1-2 \sqrt {2}\, \textit {\_Z} \right )+4}\, \operatorname {JacobiSN}\left (\frac {t \sqrt {-\sqrt {2}\, \operatorname {RootOf}\left (\textit {\_Z}^{2}+1-2 \sqrt {2}\, \textit {\_Z} \right )+4}}{2}, \operatorname {RootOf}\left (\textit {\_Z}^{2}+1-2 \sqrt {2}\, \textit {\_Z} \right )\right )}{2} \]

✗ Mathematica

ode=D[x[t],{t,2}]==-x[t]+x[t]^3; 
ic={x[0]==0,Derivative[1][x][0] ==1/2}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},x[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

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✗ Sympy

from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x = Function("x") 
ode = Eq(-x(t)**3 + x(t) + Derivative(x(t), (t, 2)),0) 
ics = {x(0): 0, Subs(Derivative(x(t), t), t, 0): 1/2} 
dsolve(ode,func=x(t),ics=ics)
 

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