43.21.6 problem 2(a)

Internal problem ID [9022]
Book : An introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations. Earl A. Coddington. Dover. NY 1961
Section : Chapter 5. Existence and uniqueness of solutions to first order equations. Page 190
Problem number : 2(a)
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 06:01:37 PM
CAS classification : [_quadrature]

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

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (x_{0} \right )&=y_{0} \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.013 (sec). Leaf size: 18

ode:=diff(y(x),x) = y(x)^2; 
ic:=[y(x__0) = y__0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = -\frac {y_{0}}{-1+\left (x -x_{0} \right ) y_{0}} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.017 (sec). Leaf size: 16

ode=D[y[x],x]==x2*y[x]; 
ic={y[x0]==y0}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},y[x],x,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \text {y0} e^{\text {x2} (x-\text {x0})} \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.080 (sec). Leaf size: 15

from sympy import * 
x = symbols("x") 
y = Function("y") 
ode = Eq(-y(x)**2 + Derivative(y(x), x),0) 
ics = {y(x__0): y__0} 
dsolve(ode,func=y(x),ics=ics)
 

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = - \frac {1}{x + \frac {- x^{0} y^{0} - 1}{y^{0}}} \]