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- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Section 1.1: Some Basic Mathematical Models; Direction Fields
- Section 1.2: Solutions of Some Differential Equations
- Section 1.3: Classification of Differential Equations
- Section 1.4: Historical Remarks
- Chapter 2: First Order Differential Equations
- Section 2.1: Linear Equations; Method of Integrating Factors
- Section 2.2: Separable Equations
- Section 2.3: Modeling with First Order Equations
- Section 2.4: Differences Between Linear and Nonlinear Equations
- Section 2.5: Autonomous Equations and Population Dynamics
- Section 2.6: Exact Equations and Integrating Factors
- Section 2.7: Numerical Approximations: Euler's Method
- Section 2.8: The Existence and Uniqueness Theorem
- Section 2.9: First Order Difference Equations
- Chapter 3: Second Order Linear Equations
- Section 3.1: Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients
- Section 3.2: Solutions of Linear Homogeneous Equations; the Wronskian
- Section 3.3: Complex Roots of the Characteristic Equation
- Section 3.4: Repeated Roots; Reduction of Order
- Section 3.5: Nonhomogeneous Equations; Method of Undetermined Coefficients
- Section 3.6: Variation of Parameters
- Section 3.7: Mechanical and Electrical Vibrations
- Section 3.8: Forced Vibrations
- Chapter 4: Higher Order Linear Equations
- Section 4.1: General Theory of nth Order Linear Equations
- Section 4.2: Homogeneous Equations with Constant Coefficients
- Section 4.3: The Method of Undetermined Coefficients
- Section 4.4: The Method of Variation of Parameters
- Chapter 5: Series Solutions of Second Order Linear Equations
- Section 5.1: Review of Power Series
- Section 5.2: Series Solutions Near an Ordinary Point, Part I
- Section 5.3: Series Solutions Near an Ordinary Point, Part II
- Section 5.4: Euler Equations; Regular Singular Points
- Section 5.5: Series Solutions Near a Regular Singular Point, Part I
- Section 5.6: Series Solutions Near a Regular Singular Point, Part II
- Section 5.7: Bessel's Equation
- Chapter 6: The Laplace Transform
- Section 6.1: Definition of the Laplace Transform
- Section 6.2: Solution of Initial Value Problems
- Section 6.3: Step Functions
- Section 6.4: Differential Equations with Discontinuous Forcing Functions
- Section 6.5: Impulse Functions
- Section 6.6: The Convolution Integral
- Chapter 7: Systems of First Order Linear Equations
- Section 7.1: Introduction
- Section 7.2: Review of Matrices
- Section 7.3: Systems of Linear Algebraic Equations; Linear Independence, Eigenvalues, Eigenvectors
- Section 7.4: Basic Theory of Systems of First Order Linear Equations
- Section 7.5: Homogeneous Linear Systems with Constant Coefficients
- Section 7.6: Complex Eigenvalues
- Section 7.7: Fundamental Matrices
- Section 7.8: Repeated Eigenvalues
- Section 7.9: Nonhomogeneous Linear Systems
- Chapter 8: Numerical Methods
- Section 8.1: The Euler or Tangent Line Method
- Section 8.2: Improvements on the Euler Method
- Section 8.3: The Runge-Kutta Method
- Section 8.4: Multistep Methods
- Section 8.5: Systems of First Order Equations
- Section 8.6: More on Errors; Stability
- Chapter 9: Nonlinear Differential Equations and Stability
- Section 9.1: The Phase Plane: Linear Systems
- Section 9.2: Autonomous Systems and Stability
- Section 9.3: Locally Linear Systems
- Section 9.4: Competing Species
- Section 9.5: Predator-Prey Equations
- Section 9.6: Liapunov's Second Method
- Section 9.7: Periodic Solutions and Limit Cycles
- Section 9.8: Chaos and Strange Attractors: The Lorenz Equations
- Chapter 10: Partial Differential Equations and Fourier Series
- Section 10.1: Two-Point Boundary Value Problems
- Section 10.2: Fourier Series
- Section 10.3: The Fourier Convergence Theorem
- Section 10.4: Even and Odd Functions
- Section 10.5: Separation of Variables; Heat Conduction in a Rod
- Section 10.6: Other Heat Conduction Problems
- Section 10.7: The Wave Equation: Vibrations of an Elastic String
- Section 10.8: Laplace's Equation
- Chapter 11: Boundary Value Problems and Sturm-Liouville Theory
- Section 11.1: The Occurence of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems
- Section 11.2: Sturm-Liouville Boundary Value Problems
- Section 11.3: Nonhomogeneous Boundary Value Problems
- Section 11.4: Singular Sturm-Liouville Problems
- Section 11.5: Further Remarks on the Method of Separation of Variables: A Bessel Series Expansion
- Section 11.6: Series of Orthogonal Functions: Mean Convergence
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