January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
768 pages
27h 45m
English
In Chapters 1 and 5 we discussed methods for solving an ordinary differential equation that involves only one dependent variable. Many applications, however, require the use of two or more dependent variables, each a function of a single independent variable (typically time). Such a problem leads naturally to a system of simultaneous ordinary differential equations. We will usually denote the independent variable by t and the dependent variables (the unknown functions of t) by or by x, y, z, Primes will indicate derivatives with respect to t.
We will restrict our attention to systems in which the number of equations is the same as the number ...
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