differential equation problem with Weierstrass elliptic function
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- Subject: [mg86298] differential equation problem with Weierstrass elliptic function
- From: Roman <rschmied at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 02:34:18 -0500 (EST)
Hi, I am trying to solve the following differential equation: DSolve[y''[x] == -y[x]^2 Cos[x], y[x], x] Mathematica 6.0 for Linux x86 (64-bit) gives me a solution involving the WeierstrassP function. It is easy to check that the given solution is wrong (just substitute back into the differential equation and plot for some random coefficients C[1] and C[2]). (1) Can you help me solve this equation? (2) Is this a bug in Mathematica? Thanks! Roman.