73.8.32 problem 13.5 (h)

Internal problem ID [15169]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section : Chapter 13. Higher order equations: Extending first order concepts. Additional exercises page 259
Problem number : 13.5 (h)
Date solved : Monday, March 31, 2025 at 01:29:55 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], _Liouville, [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_xy]]

\begin{align*} \left (y-3\right ) y^{\prime \prime }&={y^{\prime }}^{2} \end{align*}

Maple. Time used: 0.024 (sec). Leaf size: 16
ode:=(y(x)-3)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x) = diff(y(x),x)^2; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\begin{align*} y &= 3 \\ y &= {\mathrm e}^{c_1 x} c_2 +3 \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 0.577 (sec). Leaf size: 16
ode=(y[x]-3)*D[y[x],{x,2}]==D[y[x],x]^2; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\[ y(x)\to 3+e^{c_1 (x+c_2)} \]
Sympy
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq((y(x) - 3)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - Derivative(y(x), x)**2,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
NotImplementedError : The given ODE -sqrt((y(x) - 3)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2))) + Derivative(y(x), x) cannot be solved by the factorable group method