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Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Chapter 1 Basic Concepts
Chapter 2 An Introduction to Modeling and Qualitative Methods
Mathematical Models
The “Modeling Cycle”
Qualitative Methods
Chapter 3 Classifications of First-Order Differential Equations
Chapter 4 Separable First-Order Differential Equations
Chapter 5 Exact First-Order Differential Equations
Defining Properties
Method of Solution
Integrating Factors
Chapter 6 Linear First-Order Differential Equations
Chapter 7 Applications of First-Order Differential Equations
Chapter 8 Linear Differential Equations: Theory of Solutions
Chapter 9 Second-Order Linear Homogeneous Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients
Chapter 10 nth-Order Linear Homogeneous Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients
Chapter 11 The Method of Undetermined Coefficients
Chapter 12 Variation of Parameters
The Method
Scope of the Method
Chapter 13 Initial-Value Problems for Linear Differential Equations
Chapter 14 Applications of Second-Order Linear Differential Equations
Chapter 15 Matrices
Matrices and Vectors
Matrix Addition
Scalar and Matrix Multiplication
Powers of a Square Matrix
Differentiation and Integration of Matrices
The Characteristic Equation
Chapter 16 e[sup(At)]
Chapter 17 Reduction of Linear Differential Equations to a System of First-Order Equations
Chapter 18 Graphical and Numerical Methods for Solving First-Order Differential Equations
Qualitative Methods
Direction Fields
Euler’s Method
Stability
Chapter 19 Further Numerical Methods for Solving First-Order Differential Equations
Chapter 20 Numerical Methods for Solving Second-Order Differential Equations Via Systems
Chapter 21 The Laplace Transform
Chapter 22 Inverse Laplace Transforms
Chapter 23 Convolutions and the Unit Step Function
Convolutions
Unit Step Function
Translations
Chapter 24 Solutions of Linear Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients by Laplace Transforms
Chapter 25 Solutions of Linear Systems by Laplace Transforms
Chapter 26 Solutions of Linear Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients by Matrix Methods
Chapter 27 Power Series Solutions of Linear Differential Equations with Variable Coefficients
Second-Order Equations
Analytic Functions and Ordinary Points
Solutions Around the Origin of Homogeneous Equations
Solutions Around the Origin of Nonhomogeneous Equations
Initial-Value Problems
Solutions Around Other Points
Chapter 28 Series Solutions Near a Regular Singular Point
Regular Singular Points
Method of Frobenius
General Solution
Chapter 29 Some Classical Differential Equations
Chapter 30 Gamma and Bessel Functions
Chapter 31 An Introduction to Partial Differential Equations
Chapter 32 Second-Order Boundary-Value Problems
Chapter 33 Eigenfunction Expansions
Chapter 34 An Introduction to Difference Equations
Introduction
Classifications
Solutions
Appendix A: Laplace Transforms
Appendix B: Some Comments about Technology
Introductory Remarks
T1-89
Mathematica
Answers to Supplementary Problems
Index
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