ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS POWERTOOL 

 

Lesson 0 -- Table of Contents 

 

Prof. Douglas B. Meade 

Industrial Mathematics Institute 

Department of Mathematics 

University of South Carolina 

Columbia, SC 29208
 

URL:   http://www.math.sc.edu/~meade/ 

E-mail: meade@math.sc.edu
 

Copyright ©  2001  by Douglas B. Meade 

All rights reserved 

 

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Table of Contents 

Unit 1 --- Preliminaries 

Lesson 01 --- Introduction to Differential Equations in Maple 

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Unit 2 --- Analytic Solution of First-Order Differential Equations 

Lesson 02 --- Separable Equations 

Lesson 03 --- Application: Exponential and Logistic Growth 

Lesson 04 --- First-Order Linear Equations 

Lesson 05 --- Application: Mixing Problems 

Lesson 06 --- Bifurcations 

Lesson 07 --- Application: The Spruce Budworm 

Lesson 08 --- Exact Equations 

Lesson 09 --- Application: Orthogonal Trajectories 

Lesson 10 --- Substitution and Change of Variables 

Lesson 11 --- First-Order Linear Systems 

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Unit 3 --- Graphical Solution of Initial Value Problems (IVPs) 

Lesson 12 --- Slope Fields 

Lesson 13 --- Direction Fields and Phase Portraits 

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Unit 4 --- Numerical Methods for Initial Value Problems 

Lesson 14 --- Euler's Method 

Lesson 15 --- Improved Euler's Method 

Lesson 16 --- Runge-Kutta Method 

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Unit 5 --- Numerical Methods for Boundary Value Problems 

Lesson 17 --- Shooting Method 

Lesson 18 --- Finite Difference Method 

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Unit 6 --- Analytic Solutions for Higher-Order Differential Equations and Systems 

Lesson 19 --- Application: Rocket Flight 

Lesson 20 --- Application: Parachute Problem 

Lesson 21 --- Nonlinear Equations 

Lesson 22 --- Application: Suspended Wire 

Lesson 23 --- Application: Chemical Reactions 

Lesson 24 --- Application: Population Models 

Lesson 25 --- Application: Predator-Prey Models 

Lesson 26 --- Application: Competition Models 

Lesson 27 --- Linear Equations 

Lesson 28 --- Application: Unforced Spring-Mass Oscillators 

Lesson 29 --- Application: Electric Circuits 

Lesson 30 --- Application: Nonlinear Springs 

Lesson 31 --- Power Series Solutions 

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Unit 7 --- Laplace Transforms 

Lesson 32 --- Using Laplace Transforms to Solve Initial Value Problems 

Lesson 33 --- Using Laplace Transforms to Solve Systems 

Lesson 34 --- Piecewise-Defined and Impulse Functions 

Lesson 35 --- Transfer Functions and Frequency Response Curves 

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