Methods of Solving Differential Equations

[phrontist]

Can you get a copy of Ian Stewart's books? They are really good.

[Richard Wallace]

If you are looking for numerical methods, try Mathworld.

For methods that work in closed form (e.g., for problems you have to solve during college exams) go to your text. I don't remember which text I used, because it was in the late 1970's and probably out of print by now anyway. The one you have today is probably better.

[Rickertsen2]

Try to do it by hand. If i can't then i put it into my 89. if that can't figure it out then i hand it off to my friend paul.

[CronosPrime1]

There are many programs that can do this. Use Maple, Mathematica, or MATLAB. I wrote a cheap little program to solve second-order ODEs myself, but that can only solve equations of the type ay''+by'+cy = 0. You want the first-order ones. So go to the software. I've learned the hard way that it's always your best bet.

[Leo M]

Sanddrag -

Try Paul's Online Math Notes here:

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/AllBr...FirstOrder.asp

Good, clear explanations. Nice site.

Of course, this will teach you how to solve them, not how to plug them into a solving machine, but if I remember some of your previous posts correctly, that's what you are looking for, right?