Diffrential Equations
In this post, I'll introduce about Diffrential Equations. First-order differential equations Reference: Boyce and DiPrima, Chapter 2 The general first-order differential equation for the function 𝑦 = 𝑦(𝑥) is written as 𝑑𝑦 𝑑𝑥 = 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦), (2.1) where 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) can be any function of the independent variable 𝑥 and the dependent variable 𝑦. We first show how to determine a numerical solution of this equation, and then learn techniques for solving analytically some special forms of (2.1), namely, separable and linear first-order equations. 2.1 The Euler method view tutorial Although it is not always possible to find an analytical solution of (2.1) for 𝑦 = 𝑦(𝑥), it is always possible to determine a unique numerical solution given an initial value 𝑦(𝑥0) = 𝑦0, and provided 𝑓(𝑥, 𝑦) is a well-behaved function. The differential equation (2.1) gives us the slope 𝑓(𝑥0, 𝑦0) of the tangent line to the solution curve 𝑦 = 𝑦(𝑥) at the point (𝑥0, 𝑦0). With a small s...