80.5.60 problem D 12

Internal problem ID [21281]
Book : A Textbook on Ordinary Differential Equations by Shair Ahmad and Antonio Ambrosetti. Second edition. ISBN 978-3-319-16407-6. Springer 2015
Section : Chapter 5. Second order equations. Excercise 5.9 at page 119
Problem number : D 12
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 07:27:38 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_y_y1]]

\begin{align*} x^{\prime \prime }&=2 {x^{\prime }}^{3} x \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.010 (sec). Leaf size: 324
ode:=diff(diff(x(t),t),t) = 2*diff(x(t),t)^3*x(t); 
dsolve(ode,x(t), singsol=all);
 
\begin{align*} x &= c_1 \\ x &= \frac {\left (-12 c_2 -12 t +4 \sqrt {-4 c_1^{3}+9 c_2^{2}+18 c_2 t +9 t^{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}}+4 c_1}{2 \left (-12 c_2 -12 t +4 \sqrt {-4 c_1^{3}+9 c_2^{2}+18 c_2 t +9 t^{2}}\right )^{{1}/{3}}} \\ x &= \frac {-i \sqrt {3}\, \left (-12 c_2 -12 t +4 \sqrt {-4 c_1^{3}+9 c_2^{2}+18 c_2 t +9 t^{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}}+4 i \sqrt {3}\, c_1 -\left (-12 c_2 -12 t +4 \sqrt {-4 c_1^{3}+9 c_2^{2}+18 c_2 t +9 t^{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}}-4 c_1}{4 \left (-12 c_2 -12 t +4 \sqrt {-4 c_1^{3}+9 c_2^{2}+18 c_2 t +9 t^{2}}\right )^{{1}/{3}}} \\ x &= -\frac {-i \sqrt {3}\, \left (-12 c_2 -12 t +4 \sqrt {-4 c_1^{3}+9 c_2^{2}+18 c_2 t +9 t^{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}}+4 i \sqrt {3}\, c_1 +\left (-12 c_2 -12 t +4 \sqrt {-4 c_1^{3}+9 c_2^{2}+18 c_2 t +9 t^{2}}\right )^{{2}/{3}}+4 c_1}{4 \left (-12 c_2 -12 t +4 \sqrt {-4 c_1^{3}+9 c_2^{2}+18 c_2 t +9 t^{2}}\right )^{{1}/{3}}} \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 6.532 (sec). Leaf size: 351
ode=D[x[t],{t,2}]==2*D[x[t],t]^3*x[t]; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},x[t],t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} x(t)&\to \frac {\sqrt [3]{2} c_1}{\sqrt [3]{\sqrt {9 t^2+18 c_2 t+4 c_1{}^3+9 c_2{}^2}+3 t+3 c_2}}-\frac {\sqrt [3]{\sqrt {9 t^2+18 c_2 t+4 c_1{}^3+9 c_2{}^2}+3 t+3 c_2}}{\sqrt [3]{2}}\\ x(t)&\to \frac {2^{2/3} \left (1-i \sqrt {3}\right ) \left (\sqrt {9 t^2+18 c_2 t+4 c_1{}^3+9 c_2{}^2}+3 t+3 c_2\right ){}^{2/3}+\sqrt [3]{2} \left (-2-2 i \sqrt {3}\right ) c_1}{4 \sqrt [3]{\sqrt {9 t^2+18 c_2 t+4 c_1{}^3+9 c_2{}^2}+3 t+3 c_2}}\\ x(t)&\to \frac {2^{2/3} \left (1+i \sqrt {3}\right ) \left (\sqrt {9 t^2+18 c_2 t+4 c_1{}^3+9 c_2{}^2}+3 t+3 c_2\right ){}^{2/3}+2 i \sqrt [3]{2} \left (\sqrt {3}+i\right ) c_1}{4 \sqrt [3]{\sqrt {9 t^2+18 c_2 t+4 c_1{}^3+9 c_2{}^2}+3 t+3 c_2}}\\ x(t)&\to 0 \end{align*}
Sympy
from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x = Function("x") 
ode = Eq(-2*x(t)*Derivative(x(t), t)**3 + Derivative(x(t), (t, 2)),0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=x(t),ics=ics)
 
NotImplementedError : The given ODE 2**(2/3)*(Derivative(x(t), (t, 2))/x(t))**(1/3)/4 - 2**(2/3)*sqrt(3)*I*(Derivative(x(t), (t, 2))/x(t))**(1/3)/4 + Derivative(x(t), t) cannot be solved by the factorable group method