Probability and complex function: Unit V: Ordinary Differential Equations

Ordinary Differential Equations

Introduction

An ordinary differential equation is an equation that contains one or several derivatives of an unknown function, which we will call y (x) and which we want to determine from the equation. The equation may also contain y itself as well as given functions and constants.

UNIT - V

ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

High order linear differential equations with constant co-efficients - Method of variation of parameters - Homogenous equation of Euler's and Legendre's type - System of simultaneous linear differential equations with constant co-efficients - Method of undetermined co-efficients.

 

INTRODUCTION

Differential equations are of fundamental importance in engineering mathematics because many physical laws and relations appear mathematically in the form of such equations.

An ordinary differential equation is an equation that contains one or several derivatives of an unknown function, which we will call y (x) and which we want to determine from the equation. The equation may also contain y itself as well as given functions and constants.

The word "Ordinary" distinguishes them from partial differential equations, involving an unknown function of two or more variables and its partial derivatives. In applied mathematics, every geometrical or physical problem when translated into mathematical symbols gives rise to a differential equation. The study of a differential equation in applied mathematics consists of three phases.

(i) Formation of differential equation from the given physical situation, called modelling.

(ii) Solutions of this differential equation, evaluating the arbitrary constants from the given conditions, and

(iii) Physical interpretation of the solution.

 

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