1.6 problem 20

Internal problem ID [12259]

Book: Ordinary Differential Equations by Charles E. Roberts, Jr. CRC Press. 2010
Section: Chapter 1. Introduction. Exercises page 14
Problem number: 20.
ODE order: 1.
ODE degree: 1.

CAS Maple gives this as type [_quadrature]

\[ \boxed {y^{\prime }+\frac {1}{2 y}=0} \]

Solution by Maple

Time used: 0.0 (sec). Leaf size: 23

dsolve(diff(y(x),x)+1/(2*y(x))=0,y(x), singsol=all)
 

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

Solution by Mathematica

Time used: 0.113 (sec). Leaf size: 35

DSolve[y'[x]+1/(2*y[x])==0,y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions -> True]
 

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