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This workbook on ordinary differential equations serves either as a handy supplement to current students or as a useful review for students who have previously studied the material. This book focuses on essential techniques for solving and understanding differential equations. Topics include: first-order differential equations second-order differential equations separable equations linear equations homogeneous equations exact differential equations autonomous differential equations the Wronskian initial-value and boundary-value problems applications of differential equations power series solutions recurrence relations Legendre, Chebyshev, Laguerre, and Hermite Polynomials Rodrigues’ formula and more The author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this workbook of the Improve Your Math Fluency series to share his strategies for solving differential equations. Review: Wonderful workbook - It's simple and to the point. I think that it's wonderful for practicing, however you would definitely need a more comprehensive Calculus book to better understand its concepts. Review: Detailed explanation - Great, definitely for beginners.









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| Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 264 Reviews |
R**O
Wonderful workbook
It's simple and to the point. I think that it's wonderful for practicing, however you would definitely need a more comprehensive Calculus book to better understand its concepts.
G**L
Detailed explanation
Great, definitely for beginners.
C**C
Superbly designed with concise solution methods and excellent exercises and solutions.
What I liked most is that this text extensively developed the treatment of ODEs with variable coefficients of the independent variable, through Recurrence of Power Series Expansions to the important special cases of these including the Hermite Laguerre, Cheyshev, and Legendre varieties. The final chapter ties it all together with applied problems in electric circuits, mechanical motions, and econometric growth rates. What I found disappointing is that this text stopped short with the introduction of the Wronskian for determining linear independence of solutions, when I wanted it to boldly go forward into the use of the Wronskian to systematically determine all the solutions to NON-Homogeneous ODEs. The subject of NON-Homogneous ODE's was completely side-stepped in this text. I, also, greatly appreciated the design of the problem sets where previous exercises set the foundation for more complicated ones to come. I often found the more complicated problems were simplified by re-using the solutions determined in the previous simpler exercises. IE.) Don't re-invent the wheel concept.
D**Y
Great problems and methods for ODE's
It is a good techniques and practice text for solving certain types of ODE's.
R**E
Excellent review of DE's
Like other branches of mathematics, you learn it by DOING it...and all these review books by the author are heavily focused on practice problems with some explanations. This is not meant to be a primary text book as much theory is omitted. The main gap I see is that there is not a section of solving DE's by power series, which is introduced in pretty much every ODE class. Like the other books in the series (Physics, Single and multivariable Calculus, Trig) I strongly endorse these to my high-school students
A**R
Very thorough good explanations with plenty of examples
Excellent tutorial. I hope he writes one for partial differential equations
D**N
Excellent
Excellent book just like any book written by this author
S**E
Consise, a great buy for a post Calculus book!!!
Well defined, great author I trust!!!!
F**E
Great book to learn
Great book. I like every books he makes.
F**L
Util
Ideal para estudiantes.
G**I
Beginner friendly
The workbook covers all important things to master in ODEs.
D**Z
Muy bueno para practicar.
Como Ingeniero, lo recomiendo, las matemáticas, así como cualquier cosa en la vida, para aprender algo, se tiene que practicar. Así que lo recomiendo.
D**N
A great fresher on calculus
Really great refresher for an old timer like me - recalling uni maths
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