Differential Equations Forum

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Graduate How Do You Calculate Position, Velocity, and Acceleration from d(x)/d(t) = c/x?

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Graduate Finite Difference Method for non-square grid

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Graduate Approximating solutions on non-rectangular domains

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Graduate Coupled differential equation with boundary conditions

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Graduate Does this assumption cause problems in (many) cases?

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Graduate If the Wronskian equals 0, is it always 0?

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Graduate Solution for a general variational equation of 2nd order

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Graduate First order integro differential equation

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Graduate Are the following PDEs linear or nonlinear?

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Graduate Higher order diff.eq undetermined coefficient

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Undergrad What is Method of Characteristics?

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Undergrad Zero-Input/Zero-State Response vs. Homogenous/Particular Solution

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How Do Characteristic Curves Solve This Cauchy Problem?

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Undergrad Having a hard time understanding whats asked.

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Graduate How to convert Euler Equations to Lagrangian Form?

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Undergrad Higher order differential equation

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What is the Solution to Part B in Newton's Law of Cooling Problem?

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Graduate Boundary conditions for heat transfer in the pipe

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Graduate Advection equation stability for explicit scheme

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Graduate Heat equation given constant surface heat flux

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Graduate Seek power series solutions of the given differential equation

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Graduate A discussion about Fourier and Laplace transforms and calculus

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Graduate Change independent variable in magnetic field line equations

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Graduate Finite Difference Approach for a Moving Boundary Problem

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Use Wronskian to show only 2 indepndent solutions of 2nd order ODE

  • ognik
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Uniqueness of Solutions for 2nd Order Linear Homogeneous ODEs

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Graduate Lagrange equation of motion for tensegrity

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Graduate Using Lie Groups to Solve & Understand First Order ODE's

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Graduate Convolution and space-time Fourier transform

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Graduate Finite Differencing Dynamic Boundary

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Graduate Ordinary Differential Equations by Tenenbaum and Pollard

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Undergrad What is the solution to cot(2x)=0.5(cot(x)-tg(x))?

  • Sobhan
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Graduate Trapping region for a nonlinear ODE system

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Graduate Implicit iterative methods oscillating?

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Graduate Numerically solving 2 coupled PDEs

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Graduate Solving nonlinear differential to emulate Newtonian gravity

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Graduate Analytical solution to mx"(t)+b(x'(t))x'(t)+k(p)x(t)=0

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Graduate What is this differential equation? I'm going crazy

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Undergrad Differentiation of e^(-x) / ln(x)

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Graduate Numerical methods that need a guess/approximate solutions

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Graduate What is the general solution for PDEs in the form of a question?

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Graduate Whats the point of a function being orthogonal?

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Graduate Step Validity with the Fourier Transform of Convolution

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Graduate Reducing and increase of order and ODE

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Graduate This Fourier Transfer Function properties?.

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Graduate Is the One Dimensional Wave Equation Applicable to a String Oscillating in Time?

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Graduate How to reduce a system of second order ODEs to four first order equations?

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Undergrad What Advanced Topics Follow a Basic Course in Partial Differential Equations?

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Graduate A question about notation in PDE

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Graduate How can the 2nd Order Elliptic Equation be solved for exact solutions?

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Differential equations - Decidability and Complexity

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Graduate Hyperbolic partial differential equation

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Graduate Searching for Symmetries in PDEs with Mathematica(c)

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Graduate Can one define higher order infinitesimals?

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Graduate Scaling when solving Schrodinger equation numerically

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Graduate Method of lines for diffusion equation

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Graduate Solution space of nth order linear ODE, n dimension Vector Space

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Graduate How can the wave equation be rearranged to include r?

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Undergrad Why Can't I Solve y''=3/y²+5? Explained

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Discretising Elliptic PDE in cylindrical coordinates

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Undergrad Exponential Solution to Wave Equation

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Undergrad Can the Laplace equation be used to solve for y⁴?

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Graduate Are hyperbolic sines and cosines orthogonal in solving higher order PDE's?

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Calculations - absolute stability

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How Does Precision Affect Error in Euler's Method Calculations?

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Bound of Euler method- nonuniform partition

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Find Order of Accuracy: Solve Mistake Worried

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How can we find the coefficients?

  • mathmari
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Undergrad Simple inverse Laplace using PFE not so simple?

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Undergrad Nth order linear ode, why do we have n general solutions?

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Graduate Question about Coordinate Change

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Verifying the Minimum Principle for $u(x,y)$

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Green's theorem - Boundary value problem has at most one solution

  • mathmari
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Interval for the defined solution

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Boundary Value Problem: Solving with Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors

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Prove Inequality w/ Parseval's Formula

  • mathmari
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Why is the general solution of this form?

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Undergrad Unraveling Hubble Law and Integral: A PF Forum Guide

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Graduate Heat equation order of accuracy (Crank-Nicolson)

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Graduate Regular Sturm-Liouville, one-dimensional eigenfunctspace

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Graduate System of nonlinear differential equations

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Graduate Inverse Discrete Laplace Transform

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Graduate Distribution between non-linear branches

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Graduate Solving Notation & Convention Confusion in Differentials

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Problem with finding the general solution of an ode

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Undergrad Doubt about convergence test on differential equations

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What is the Formula for Calculating Acceleration in Different Cases?

  • mathmari
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Graduate Existence of general solution, 2nd order ODE

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Find the force and the torque so that the cylinder is in balance

  • mathmari
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Find Forces Given Air Pressure and Velocity

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High School Avoiding Lost Solutions in Equation Solving

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How do we get to this differential equation?

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How can the polynomial $L_n(x)$ be used to solve the equation Laguerre?

  • evinda
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Why is this equation non separable?

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