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Author(s): Richard Bronson
Edition: 1
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 143
Schuam's Outline of Differential Equations......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
1. Basic Concepts and Classifying DE's......Page 8
2. Solutions of 1st Order DE's......Page 15
3. Applications of 1st Order DE's......Page 27
4. Linear DE's: Theory of Solutions......Page 36
5. Solutions of Linear Homogeneous DE's with Constant Coefficients......Page 40
6. Solutions of Linear Nonhomogeneous Equations and Initial-Value Problems......Page 46
7. Applications of 2nd Order Linear DE's......Page 54
8. Laplace Transforms and Inverse Laplace Transforms......Page 62
9. Solutions by Laplace Transforms......Page 72
10. Matrices and the Matrix Exponential......Page 76
11. Solutions of Linear DE's with Constant Coefficients by Matrix Methods......Page 85
12. Power Series Solutions......Page 92
13. Gamma and Bessel Functions......Page 105
14. Numerical Methods......Page 111
15. Boundary-Value Problems and Fourier Series......Page 122
Appendix. Laplace Transforms......Page 131
Index......Page 140
