82.8.20 problem 36-21

Internal problem ID [21891]
Book : The Differential Equations Problem Solver. VOL. II. M. Fogiel director. REA, NY. 1978. ISBN 78-63609
Section : Chapter 36. Nonlinear differential equations. Page 1203
Problem number : 36-21
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 08:05:47 PM
CAS classification : [_quadrature]

\begin{align*} 2 {y^{\prime }}^{2}-2 y y^{\prime }-1&=0 \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.012 (sec). Leaf size: 69
ode:=2*diff(y(x),x)^2-2*y(x)*diff(y(x),x)-1 = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\begin{align*} x +\frac {y^{2}}{2}+\frac {y \sqrt {y^{2}+2}}{2}+\operatorname {arcsinh}\left (\frac {\sqrt {2}\, y}{2}\right )-c_1 &= 0 \\ x +\frac {y^{2}}{2}-\frac {y \sqrt {y^{2}+2}}{2}-\operatorname {arcsinh}\left (\frac {\sqrt {2}\, y}{2}\right )-c_1 &= 0 \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 0.342 (sec). Leaf size: 109
ode=D[y[x],x]^2-2*y[x]*D[y[x],x]-1+D[y[x],x]^2==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [\frac {1}{4} \left (\text {$\#$1} \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+2}-\text {$\#$1}\right )-2 \log \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+2}-\text {$\#$1}\right )\right )\&\right ]\left [\frac {x}{2}+c_1\right ]\\ y(x)&\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [\frac {1}{4} \left (\text {$\#$1} \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+2}+\text {$\#$1}\right )-2 \log \left (\sqrt {\text {$\#$1}^2+2}-\text {$\#$1}\right )\right )\&\right ]\left [-\frac {x}{2}+c_1\right ] \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.589 (sec). Leaf size: 167
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-2*y(x)*Derivative(y(x), x) + 2*Derivative(y(x), x)**2 - 1,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
\[ \left [ x - \frac {\sqrt {y^{2}{\left (x \right )} + 2} \operatorname {asinh}{\left (\frac {\sqrt {2} y{\left (x \right )}}{2} \right )}}{- \sqrt {y^{2}{\left (x \right )} + 2} + y{\left (x \right )}} + \frac {y{\left (x \right )} \operatorname {asinh}{\left (\frac {\sqrt {2} y{\left (x \right )}}{2} \right )}}{- \sqrt {y^{2}{\left (x \right )} + 2} + y{\left (x \right )}} - \frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{- \sqrt {y^{2}{\left (x \right )} + 2} + y{\left (x \right )}} = C_{1}, \ x - \frac {\sqrt {y^{2}{\left (x \right )} + 2} \operatorname {asinh}{\left (\frac {\sqrt {2} y{\left (x \right )}}{2} \right )}}{\sqrt {y^{2}{\left (x \right )} + 2} + y{\left (x \right )}} - \frac {y{\left (x \right )} \operatorname {asinh}{\left (\frac {\sqrt {2} y{\left (x \right )}}{2} \right )}}{\sqrt {y^{2}{\left (x \right )} + 2} + y{\left (x \right )}} - \frac {y{\left (x \right )}}{\sqrt {y^{2}{\left (x \right )} + 2} + y{\left (x \right )}} = C_{1}\right ] \]