23.4.126 problem 126

Internal problem ID [6428]
Book : Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section : Part II. Chapter 4. THE NONLINEAR EQUATION OF SECOND ORDER, page 380
Problem number : 126
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 02:56:35 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _exact, _nonlinear], _Liouville, [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]

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

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.008 (sec). Leaf size: 33

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

\begin{align*} y &= 0 \\ y &= \sqrt {2 c_1 x +2 c_2} \\ y &= -\sqrt {2 c_1 x +2 c_2} \\ \end{align*}

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.105 (sec). Leaf size: 20

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to c_2 \sqrt {2 x-c_1} \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)**2,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

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