23.1.127 problem 131

Internal problem ID [4734]
Book : Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section : Part II. Chapter 1. THE DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION IS OF FIRST ORDER AND OF FIRST DEGREE, page 223
Problem number : 131
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 08:20:36 AM
CAS classification : [_quadrature]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&=\sqrt {a +b \cos \left (y\right )} \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 21

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

\[ x -\int _{}^{y}\frac {1}{\sqrt {a +b \cos \left (\textit {\_a} \right )}}d \textit {\_a} +c_1 = 0 \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.432 (sec). Leaf size: 55

ode=D[y[x],x]==Sqrt[a+b*Cos[ y[x]]]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to 2 \operatorname {JacobiAmplitude}\left (\frac {1}{2} \sqrt {a+b} (x+c_1),\frac {2 b}{a+b}\right )\\ y(x)&\to -\arccos \left (-\frac {a}{b}\right )\\ y(x)&\to \arccos \left (-\frac {a}{b}\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.427 (sec). Leaf size: 17

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

\[ \int \limits ^{y{\left (x \right )}} \frac {1}{\sqrt {a + b \cos {\left (y \right )}}}\, dy = C_{1} + x \]