29.2.8 problem 8

Internal problem ID [7235]
Book : Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences. third edition. Mary L. Boas. John Wiley. 2006
Section : Chapter 8, Ordinary differential equations. Section 2. Separable equations. page 398
Problem number : 8
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 04:26:01 PM
CAS classification : [_separable]

\begin{align*} y^{\prime }+2 x y^{2}&=0 \end{align*}

With initial conditions

\begin{align*} y \left (2\right )&=1 \\ \end{align*}

✓ Maple. Time used: 0.059 (sec). Leaf size: 11

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

\[ y = \frac {1}{x^{2}-3} \]

✓ Mathematica. Time used: 0.074 (sec). Leaf size: 12

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

\begin{align*} y(x)&\to \frac {1}{x^2-3} \end{align*}

✓ Sympy. Time used: 0.097 (sec). Leaf size: 8

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

\[ y{\left (x \right )} = \frac {1}{x^{2} - 3} \]