29.4.8 problem 8

Internal problem ID [7261]
Book : Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley. 2006
Section : Chapter 8, Ordinary differential equations. Section 4. OTHER METHODS FOR FIRST-ORDER EQUATIONS. page 406
Problem number : 8
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 04:27:16 PM
CAS classification : [[_homogeneous, `class A`], _rational, _dAlembert]

\begin{align*} y y^{\prime }&=-x +\sqrt {x^{2}+y^{2}} \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.047 (sec). Leaf size: 27

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

\[ \frac {-c_1 y^{2}+\sqrt {x^{2}+y^{2}}+x}{y^{2}} = 0 \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.232 (sec). Leaf size: 57

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to -e^{\frac {c_1}{2}} \sqrt {2 x+e^{c_1}}\\ y(x)&\to e^{\frac {c_1}{2}} \sqrt {2 x+e^{c_1}}\\ y(x)&\to 0 \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 48.840 (sec). Leaf size: 235

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

\[ \left [ y{\left (x \right )} = - \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {- C_{1} - 2 \sqrt {2} x \sqrt {- C_{1}}}}{2}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {- C_{1} - 2 \sqrt {2} x \sqrt {- C_{1}}}}{2}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = - \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {- C_{1} + 2 \sqrt {2} x \sqrt {- C_{1}}}}{2}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {- C_{1} + 2 \sqrt {2} x \sqrt {- C_{1}}}}{2}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = - \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {- 2 \sqrt {2} \sqrt {C_{1}} x + C_{1}}}{2}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {- 2 \sqrt {2} \sqrt {C_{1}} x + C_{1}}}{2}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = - \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {2 \sqrt {2} \sqrt {C_{1}} x + C_{1}}}{2}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {\sqrt {2} \sqrt {2 \sqrt {2} \sqrt {C_{1}} x + C_{1}}}{2}\right ] \]