81.7.7 problem 8

Internal problem ID [18633]
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 : 8
Date solved : Monday, March 31, 2025 at 05:48:28 PM
CAS classification : [[_2nd_order, _missing_y], [_2nd_order, _reducible, _mu_y_y1]]

\begin{align*} \left (x^{2}+1\right ) y^{\prime \prime }-1-{y^{\prime }}^{2}&=0 \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.023 (sec). Leaf size: 37

ode:=(x^2+1)*diff(diff(y(x),x),x)-1-diff(y(x),x)^2 = 0; 
dsolve(ode,y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = \frac {-\ln \left (c_1 x -1\right ) c_1^{2}+c_2 \,c_1^{2}-c_1 x -\ln \left (c_1 x -1\right )}{c_1^{2}} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 7.844 (sec). Leaf size: 33

ode=(1+x^2)*D[y[x],{x,2}]-1-(D[y[x],x])^2==0; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\[ y(x)\to -x \cot (c_1)+\csc ^2(c_1) (-\log (x \sin (c_1)-\cos (c_1)))+c_2 \]

✓ Sympy. Time used: 1.476 (sec). Leaf size: 24

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq((x**2 + 1)*Derivative(y(x), (x, 2)) - Derivative(y(x), x)**2 - 1,0) 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ \left [ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} + \int \tan {\left (C_{2} + \operatorname {atan}{\left (x \right )} \right )}\, dx, \ y{\left (x \right )} = C_{1} + \int \tan {\left (C_{2} + \operatorname {atan}{\left (x \right )} \right )}\, dx\right ] \]