29.26.27 problem 763

Internal problem ID [5348]
Book : Ordinary differential equations and their solutions. By George Moseley Murphy. 1960
Section : Various 26
Problem number : 763
Date solved : Sunday, March 30, 2025 at 08:02:22 AM
CAS classification : [_quadrature]

\begin{align*} {y^{\prime }}^{2}&=a^{2} y^{n} \end{align*}

Maple. Time used: 0.472 (sec). Leaf size: 72
ode:=diff(y(x),x)^2 = a^2*y(x)^n; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\begin{align*} y &= 4^{\frac {1}{n -2}} \left (-\frac {1}{a \left (-c_1 +x \right ) \left (n -2\right )}\right )^{\frac {2}{n -2}} \\ y &= 4^{\frac {1}{n -2}} \left (\frac {1}{a \left (-c_1 +x \right ) \left (n -2\right )}\right )^{\frac {2}{n -2}} \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 1.796 (sec). Leaf size: 77
ode=(D[y[x],x])^2==a^2*y[x]^n; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)\to 2^{\frac {2}{n-2}} (-((n-2) (a x+c_1))){}^{-\frac {2}{n-2}} \\ y(x)\to 2^{\frac {2}{n-2}} ((n-2) (a x-c_1)){}^{-\frac {2}{n-2}} \\ y(x)\to 0^{\frac {1}{n}} \\ \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 102.471 (sec). Leaf size: 299
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
a = symbols("a") 
n = symbols("n") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-a**2*y(x)**n + Derivative(y(x), x)**2,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ \left [ y{\left (x \right )} = \begin {cases} 2^{\frac {2}{n - 2}} \left (C_{1}^{2} n^{2} - 4 C_{1}^{2} n + 4 C_{1}^{2} - 2 C_{1} a n^{2} x + 8 C_{1} a n x - 8 C_{1} a x + a^{2} n^{2} x^{2} - 4 a^{2} n x^{2} + 4 a^{2} x^{2}\right )^{- \frac {1}{n - 2}} & \text {for}\: n \neq 2 \\\text {NaN} & \text {otherwise} \end {cases}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = \begin {cases} e^{- \frac {2 W\left (- \frac {C_{1} n}{2} + C_{1} + \frac {a n x}{2} - a x\right )}{n - 2}} & \text {for}\: n = 2 \\\text {NaN} & \text {otherwise} \end {cases}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = \begin {cases} e^{- \frac {2 W\left (\frac {C_{1} n}{2} - C_{1} - \frac {a n x}{2} + a x\right )}{n - 2}} & \text {for}\: n = 2 \\\text {NaN} & \text {otherwise} \end {cases}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = \begin {cases} 2^{\frac {2}{n - 2}} \left (C_{1}^{2} n^{2} - 4 C_{1}^{2} n + 4 C_{1}^{2} + 2 C_{1} a n^{2} x - 8 C_{1} a n x + 8 C_{1} a x + a^{2} n^{2} x^{2} - 4 a^{2} n x^{2} + 4 a^{2} x^{2}\right )^{- \frac {1}{n - 2}} & \text {for}\: n \neq 2 \\\text {NaN} & \text {otherwise} \end {cases}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = \begin {cases} e^{- \frac {2 W\left (- \frac {C_{1} n}{2} + C_{1} - \frac {a n x}{2} + a x\right )}{n - 2}} & \text {for}\: n = 2 \\\text {NaN} & \text {otherwise} \end {cases}, \ y{\left (x \right )} = \begin {cases} e^{- \frac {2 W\left (\frac {C_{1} n}{2} - C_{1} + \frac {a n x}{2} - a x\right )}{n - 2}} & \text {for}\: n = 2 \\\text {NaN} & \text {otherwise} \end {cases}\right ] \]