89.33.6 problem 6

Internal problem ID [24990]
Book : A short course in Differential Equations. Earl D. Rainville. Second edition. 1958. Macmillan Publisher, NY. CAT 58-5010
Section : Chapter 17. Special Equations of order Two. Exercises at page 251
Problem number : 6
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 11:46:01 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], _Liouville, [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]

\begin{align*} \left (1+y\right ) y^{\prime \prime }&={y^{\prime }}^{2} \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.010 (sec). Leaf size: 16

ode:=(1+y(x))*diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = diff(y(x),x)^2; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\begin{align*} y &= -1 \\ y &= {\mathrm e}^{c_1 x} c_2 -1 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.675 (sec). Leaf size: 26

ode=(y[x]+1)*D[y[x],{x,2}]==D[y[x],x]^2; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to -1+\frac {e^{c_1 (x+c_2)}}{c_1}\\ y(x)&\to \text {Indeterminate} \end{align*}

✗ Sympy

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

NotImplementedError : The given ODE -sqrt((y(x) + 1)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2))) + Derivative(y(x), x)