67.2.11 problem 3.6

Internal problem ID [16321]
Book : Ordinary Differential Equations. An introduction to the fundamentals. Kenneth B. Howell. second edition. CRC Press. FL, USA. 2020
Section : Chapter 3. Some basics about First order equations. Additional exercises. page 63
Problem number : 3.6
Date solved : Thursday, October 02, 2025 at 01:18:53 PM
CAS classification : [_quadrature]

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

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (1\right )&=0 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.003 (sec). Leaf size: 5

ode:=diff(y(x),x) = 2*y(x)^(1/2); 
ic:=[y(1) = 0]; 
dsolve([ode,op(ic)],y(x), singsol=all);
 

\[ y = 0 \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.001 (sec). Leaf size: 6

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to 0 \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.114 (sec). Leaf size: 10

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

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = x^{2} - 2 x + 1 \]