5.6 problem 10.3 (i)

Internal problem ID [10661]

Book: AN INTRODUCTION TO ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS by JAMES C. ROBINSON. Cambridge University Press 2004
Section: Chapter 10, Two tricks for nonlinear equations. Exercises page 97
Problem number: 10.3 (i).
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_separable]

\[ \boxed {V^{\prime }\left (x \right )+2 y^{\prime } y=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.016 (sec). Leaf size: 25

dsolve(diff(V(x),x)+2*y(x)*diff(y(x),x)=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

\begin{align*} y \left (x \right ) = \sqrt {-V \left (x \right )+c_{1}} \\ y \left (x \right ) = -\sqrt {-V \left (x \right )+c_{1}} \\ \end{align*}

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.077 (sec). Leaf size: 37

DSolve[V'[x]+2*y[x]*y'[x]==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)\to -\sqrt {-V(x)+2 c_1} \\ y(x)\to \sqrt {-V(x)+2 c_1} \\ \end{align*}