81.7.6 problem 7

Internal problem ID [18632]
Book : A short course on differential equations. By Donald Francis Campbell. Maxmillan company. London. 1907
Section : Chapter VI. Certain particular forms of equations. Exercises at page 74
Problem number : 7
Date solved : Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:48:25 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_x], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_x_y1]]

\begin{align*} y y^{\prime \prime }-{y^{\prime }}^{2}&=1 \end{align*}

Maple. Time used: 0.039 (sec). Leaf size: 27
ode:=y(x)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-diff(y(x),x)^2 = 1; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 
\begin{align*} y &= c_1 \cosh \left (\frac {c_2 +x}{c_1}\right ) \\ y &= c_1 \cosh \left (\frac {c_2 +x}{c_1}\right ) \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 0.931 (sec). Leaf size: 464
ode=y[x]*D[y[x],{x,2}]-(D[y[x],x])^2==1; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} y(x)\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [-\frac {\sqrt {1-\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 c_1}} \text {arcsinh}\left (\text {$\#$1} \sqrt {-e^{2 c_1}}\right )}{\sqrt {-e^{2 c_1}} \sqrt {-1+\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 c_1}}}\&\right ][x+c_2] \\ y(x)\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [\frac {\sqrt {1-\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 c_1}} \text {arcsinh}\left (\text {$\#$1} \sqrt {-e^{2 c_1}}\right )}{\sqrt {-e^{2 c_1}} \sqrt {-1+\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 c_1}}}\&\right ][x+c_2] \\ y(x)\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [-\frac {\sqrt {1-\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 (-c_1)}} \text {arcsinh}\left (\text {$\#$1} \sqrt {-e^{2 (-c_1)}}\right )}{\sqrt {-e^{2 (-c_1)}} \sqrt {-1+\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 (-c_1)}}}\&\right ][x+c_2] \\ y(x)\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [\frac {\sqrt {1-\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 (-c_1)}} \text {arcsinh}\left (\text {$\#$1} \sqrt {-e^{2 (-c_1)}}\right )}{\sqrt {-e^{2 (-c_1)}} \sqrt {-1+\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 (-c_1)}}}\&\right ][x+c_2] \\ y(x)\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [-\frac {\sqrt {1-\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 c_1}} \text {arcsinh}\left (\text {$\#$1} \sqrt {-e^{2 c_1}}\right )}{\sqrt {-e^{2 c_1}} \sqrt {-1+\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 c_1}}}\&\right ][x+c_2] \\ y(x)\to \text {InverseFunction}\left [\frac {\sqrt {1-\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 c_1}} \text {arcsinh}\left (\text {$\#$1} \sqrt {-e^{2 c_1}}\right )}{\sqrt {-e^{2 c_1}} \sqrt {-1+\text {$\#$1}^2 e^{2 c_1}}}\&\right ][x+c_2] \\ \end{align*}
Sympy
from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(y(x)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - Derivative(y(x), x)**2 - 1,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 
NotImplementedError : The given ODE -sqrt(y(x)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - 1) + Derivative(y(x), x) cannot be solved by the factorable group method