17.1.12 problem 2(b)

Internal problem ID [4102]
Book : Theory and solutions of Ordinary Differential equations, Donald Greenspan, 1960
Section : Chapter 2. First order equations. Exercises at page 14
Problem number : 2(b)
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 07:02:50 AM
CAS classification : [_separable]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }&={\mathrm e}^{x -2 y} \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (0\right )&=0 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.088 (sec). Leaf size: 13

ode:=diff(y(x),x) = exp(x-2*y(x)); 
ic:=[y(0) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {\ln \left (2 \,{\mathrm e}^{x}-1\right )}{2} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.584 (sec). Leaf size: 17

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {1}{2} \log \left (2 e^x-1\right ) \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.247 (sec). Leaf size: 12

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

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {\log {\left (2 e^{x} - 1 \right )}}{2} \]