Changing order of integration problem

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I understand how to obtain the new bounds when you change integration, I'm just having problems actually integrating. How did they rewrite the equation to that of step 2?
 
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The inner integral is a dy integral of this form (because x is constant in the dy integral)

[tex]\int \frac a {(b+y)^\frac 1 2}\ dy[/tex]

Let u = b + y, du = dy so it looks like

[tex]\int a(u)^{-\frac 1 2}\ du[/tex]

and integrate it.