A First Course in Differential Equations: The Classic Fifth Edition

by Dennis G. Zill

Book Overview

The CLASSIC EDITION of Zill's respected book was designed for instructors who prefer not to emphasize technology, modeling, and applications, but instead want to focus on fundamental theory and techniques. Zill's CLASSIC EDITION, a reissue of the fifth edition, offers his excellent writing style, a flexible organization, an accessible level of presentation, and a wide variety of examples and exercises, all of which make it easy to teach from and easy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0534373887
• ISBN13: 9780534373887
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 520 Pages
• Weight: 2.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.3" x 10.4"

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A good text on ordinary differential equations with good examples

This particular textbook concerns ordinary differential equations. There are plenty of examples, and they are worked in steps that should make the solution strategy clear to any student with at least two previous semesters of calculus. One of the unusual features of the book are essays written by mathematicians present at the end of chapters 3, 4, 5, and 9. Each essay concerns applications of concepts learned in the previous chapter. The book is well illustrated, and motivations for study are included by making the examples solve practical problems such as the charge on a capacitor, solving orthogonal trajectories of the family of a rectangular hyperbola, or even determining the half-life of a radioactive substance. This makes it ideal for engineering students. There are numerous exercises at the end of each chapter and the solutions to odd numbered problems can be found in the back of the book. The following is the table of contents: 1. INTRODUCTION TO DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Basic Definitions and Terminology / Some Mathematical Models / Review / Exercises 2. FIRST-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Preliminary Theory / Separable Variables / Homogeneous Equations / Exact Equations / Linear Equations / Equations of Bernoulli, Ricatti, and Clairaut / Substitutions / Picard's Method / Review / Exercises 3. APPLICATIONS OF FIRST-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Orthogonal Trajectories / Applications of Linear Equations / Applications of Nonlinear Equations / Review / Exercises / Essay: Population Dynamics 4. LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF HIGHER-ORDER Preliminary Theory / Constructing a Second Solution from a Know Solution / Homogeneous Linear Equations with Constant Coefficients / Undetermined Coefficients: Superposition Approach / Differential Operators / Undetermined Coefficients: Annihilator Approach / Variation of Parameters / Review / Exercises / Essay: Chaos 5. APPLICATIONS OF SECOND-ORDER DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS: VIBRATIONAL MODELS Simple Harmonic Motion / Damped Motion / Forced Motion / Electric Circuits and Other Analogous Systems / Review / Exercises / Essay: Tacoma Narrows Suspension Bridge Collapse 6. DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH VARIABLE COEFFICIENTS Cauchy-Euler Equation / Review of Power Series; Power Series Solutions / Solutions About Ordinary Points / Solutions About Singular Points / Two Special Equations / Review / Exercises 7. LAPLACE TRANSFORM Laplace Transform / Inverse Transform / Translation Theorems and Derivatives of a Transform / Transforms of Derivatives, Integrals, and Periodic Functions / Applications / Dirac Delta Function / Review / Exercises 8. SYSTEMS OF LINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS Operator Method / Laplace Transform Method / Systems of Linear First-Order Equations / Introduction to Matrices / Matrices and Systems of Linear First-Order Equations / Homogeneous Linear Systems / Undetermined Coefficients / Variation of Parameters / Matrix Exponential / Review / Exercises 9. NUMERICAL METHODS FOR ORDINARY DIFFE

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