89.33.11 problem 12

Internal problem ID [24995]
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 : 12
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 11:46:05 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_y_y1]]

\begin{align*} -{y^{\prime }}^{2}+{y^{\prime }}^{3}+y y^{\prime \prime }&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 36

ode:=y(x)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)+diff(y(x),x)^3-diff(y(x),x)^2 = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\begin{align*} y &= 0 \\ y &= c_1 \\ y &= {\mathrm e}^{\frac {-c_1 \operatorname {LambertW}\left (\frac {{\mathrm e}^{\frac {c_2 +x}{c_1}}}{c_1}\right )+c_2 +x}{c_1}} \\ \end{align*}

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 11.471 (sec). Leaf size: 32

ode=y[x]*D[y[x],{x,2}]+D[y[x],x]^3-D[y[x],x]^2==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to e^{c_1} W\left (e^{e^{-c_1} \left (x-e^{c_1} c_1+c_2\right )}\right ) \end{align*}

✗ Sympy

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

NotImplementedError : The given ODE (sqrt((27*y(x)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 2)**2 - 4)/2 + 27*y(x)