2.5.3 Problem 4

Internal problem ID [19732]
Book : Elementary Differential Equations. By Thornton C. Fry. D Van Nostrand. NY. First Edition (1929)
Section : Chapter IV. Methods of solution: First order equations. section 32. Problems at page 89
Problem number : 4
Date solved : Wednesday, January 28, 2026 at 11:00:55 AM
CAS classification : [_quadrature]

2.5.3.1 Solved using first_order_ode_quadrature

0.196 (sec)

Entering first order ode quadrature solver

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&={\mathrm e}^{z -y^{\prime }} \\ \end{align*}

Since the ode has the form \(y^{\prime }=f(z)\), then we only need to integrate \(f(z)\).

\begin{align*} \int {dy} &= \int {\operatorname {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )\, dz}\\ y &= \frac {\operatorname {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )^{2}}{2}+\operatorname {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right ) + c_1 \end{align*}

\begin{align*} y&= \operatorname {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )+\frac {\operatorname {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )^{2}}{2}+c_1 \end{align*}

Direction field \(y^{\prime } = {\mathrm e}^{z -y^{\prime }}\)	Isoclines for \(y^{\prime } = {\mathrm e}^{z -y^{\prime }}\)

Summary of solutions found

\begin{align*} y &= \operatorname {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )+\frac {\operatorname {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )^{2}}{2}+c_1 \\ \end{align*}

2.5.3.2 ✓ Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 16

ode:=diff(y(z),z) = exp(z-diff(y(z),z)); 
dsolve(ode,y(z), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \operatorname {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )+\frac {\operatorname {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )^{2}}{2}+c_1 \]

Maple trace

Methods for first order ODEs: 
-> Solving 1st order ODE of high degree, 1st attempt 
trying 1st order WeierstrassP solution for high degree ODE 
trying 1st order WeierstrassPPrime solution for high degree ODE 
trying 1st order JacobiSN solution for high degree ODE 
trying 1st order ODE linearizable_by_differentiation 
trying differential order: 1; missing variables 
<- differential order: 1; missing  y(x)  successful
 

Maple step by step

\[ \begin {array}{lll} & {} & \textrm {Let's solve}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d z}y \left (z \right )={\mathrm e}^{z -\frac {d}{d z}y \left (z \right )} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Highest derivative means the order of the ODE is}\hspace {3pt} 1 \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d z}y \left (z \right ) \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Solve for the highest derivative}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & \frac {d}{d z}y \left (z \right )=\mathit {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right ) \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Integrate both sides with respect to}\hspace {3pt} z \\ {} & {} & \int \left (\frac {d}{d z}y \left (z \right )\right )d z =\int \mathit {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )d z +\mathit {C1} \\ \bullet & {} & \textrm {Evaluate integral}\hspace {3pt} \\ {} & {} & y \left (z \right )=\mathit {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )+\frac {\mathit {LambertW}\left ({\mathrm e}^{z}\right )^{2}}{2}+\mathit {C1} \end {array} \]

2.5.3.3 ✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 22

ode=D[y[z],z]==Exp[z-D[y[z],z]]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[z],z,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(z)&\to \frac {1}{2} W\left (e^z\right )^2+W\left (e^z\right )+c_1 \end{align*}

2.5.3.4 ✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.358 (sec). Leaf size: 17

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

\[ y{\left (z \right )} = C_{1} + \frac {W^{2}\left (e^{z}\right )}{2} + W\left (e^{z}\right ) \]

Python version: 3.12.3 (main, Aug 14 2025, 17:47:21) [GCC 13.3.0] 
Sympy version 1.14.0
 

classify_ode(ode,func=y(z)) 
 
('factorable', 'nth_algebraic', 'lie_group', 'nth_algebraic_Integral')