December 2020
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1064 pages
49h 43m
English
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2.9 Modeling with Systems of First-Order DEs
INTRODUCTION
In this section we are going to discuss mathematical models based on some of the topics that we have already discussed in the preceding two sections. This section will be similar to Section 1.3 in that we are only going to discuss systems of first-order differential equations as mathematical models and we are not going to solve any of these models. There are two good reasons for not solving systems at this point: First, we do not as yet possess the necessary mathematical tools for solving systems, and second, some of the systems that we discuss cannot be solved analytically. We shall examine solution methods for systems of linear first-order DEs in Chapter 10 and for systems of linear ...