Normal First Order Ordinary Differential Equation/Examples/y' = -x / y

Example of Normal First Order Ordinary Differential Equation

Consider the first order ordinary differential equation:

$x + y y' = 0$

This can be expressed in normal form as:

$y' = -x / y$

Sources

• 1978: Garrett Birkhoff and Gian-Carlo Rota: Ordinary Differential Equations (3rd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $1$ First-Order Differential Equations: $1$ Introduction