Differential Equations: Essential Skills Practice Workbook with Answers

Description

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 moreThe 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.