First-Order Ordinary Differential Equation -- from Wolfram MathWorld

Given a first-order ordinary differential equation (dy)/(dx)=F(x,y), (1) if F(x,y) can be expressed using separation of variables as F(x,y)=X(x)Y(y), (2) then the equation can be expressed as (dy)/(Y(y))=X(x)dx (3) and the equation can be solved by integr

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