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Graduate Understanding Taylor Expansions of Gradients in Vector Calculus

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Graduate Help Applications of Differential Equations to Escape velocity

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Undergrad How do I integrate dy/dt=ay-b in differential equations?

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Undergrad Physically, what is the difference between systems of ODEs and PDEs?

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Graduate ODE Theory Books: Find the Perfect Fit for You

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Graduate Can the Forced Wave Equation Be Solved Numerically?

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Undergrad Phase portrait direction clockwise or anticlockwise?

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Graduate Using Mathematica to solve 2nd order system of nonlinear ODE's

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Graduate How would you classify this Excitation Force?

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Undergrad Could anyone introduce me to the Bratu problem?

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Graduate What is the Kronecker index in dynamical systems?

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Graduate Inhomogenous NON-linear differential equation

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Undergrad Understanding Solutions of ODEs: y' = -(y^2)

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Graduate PDEs and Fourier transforms - is this problem too difficult?

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Graduate Solving the Damped Wave Equation: A Study of u(x,t) and its Derivatives

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Graduate Nonhomogeneous ODEs that can't be made homogeneous?

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Undergrad Please check if this solution is correct

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Undergrad Solve DiffEq for Runge-Kutta 4th Order Input

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Graduate Unique soution of this 2nd order diff equation.

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Graduate Analytical solution for heat equation with simple boundary conditions

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Graduate Units in the Navier-Stokes equation

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Undergrad Initial Value Problem using Laplace

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Undergrad How do i integrate this? Am i doing it right?

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Graduate Advection equation and Crank-Nicolson

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Graduate Where is the Mistake in Eq. 3?

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Graduate How to Solve an ODE with Mirror Functions?

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Undergrad How to Solve the Differential Equation dy/dx= x^2/y?

  • bilb27
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Undergrad I'm trying to learn DE independently, so if this is insanely stupid,

  • TylerH
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Graduate System of second-order autonomous ODE

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Graduate Mathieu oscillator: parametric resonance

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Graduate Paper buckling and 2nd Order NL ODE

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Graduate 2nd order differential equation in Reaction Engineering

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Graduate Diffusion equation without initial conditions

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Graduate Solving 2nd Order Diff Eq in Quantum Mechanics

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Graduate Help 2nd order ODE totally clueless

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Graduate What does this inhomog. wave eq'n mean?

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Graduate Solution for 2nd ODE Question 2d2ydx2 + 4 dydx+ 7y = e^−x cos x

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Graduate Something that can't be right about eigenvectors-where is my mistake?

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Graduate Reduction of Order ODE - Stuck on question

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Graduate Partial Derivative of Vectors a and b with Respect to x

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Graduate Solve third order, non-linear, ODE with indefinite BC's?

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Graduate Is there a general method for solving advection-diffusion equations?

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Undergrad Stupid question, dealing with algebra and fractions.

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Graduate Solving Difficult Differential Equations

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Graduate Multi-region Finite Difference- Interface between materials

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Graduate How Do You Solve These Coupled Differential Equations?

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Undergrad Finding velocity vs. time, when acceleration is dependent on velocity

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Graduate What Equation Combines Laplacian and Time Derivatives of a Vector Function?

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Undergrad Some questions for non/homogeneous equations

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Undergrad Can you use inverse Laplace transforms to solve problems with repeated roots?

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Graduate How Can This Nonlinear Differential Equation Be Solved?

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Undergrad Understanding Positive invariance

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Graduate Help with Understanding Governing Equations of CFD

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Graduate Solving pde with gaussian function

  • nigels
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Graduate Solving Diffusion equation with Convection

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Graduate Which Differential Equation Has a Unique Solution on the Interval (0, pi)?

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Graduate Solving for x(t) in a Nonlinear Differential Equation - Expert Help Needed

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Graduate Any notation for component-by-component vector multiplication?

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Graduate Solving Differential Equation (x^2 + x + 1)y'' + (4x + 1)y' + 2y = 1

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Graduate Separation of Variables for Solving PDEs

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Undergrad Diffrential equation subject qs

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Graduate Question about a Riccati type diff eq.

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Graduate Is this pde analytically solvable?

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Graduate Understanding Greens Function vs. Variation of Parameters

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Undergrad Safety of small angle approximations

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Graduate What is the Lagrangian and how does it relate to classical mechanics?

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Graduate Why do the pulses move like that?

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Graduate How can I solve a system of nonlinear differential equations with constants?

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Graduate How Do You Solve the Polar Boundary Value Problem in Sturm-Liouville Form?

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Graduate An autonomous ODE is simply an ODE

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Graduate Laplacian VS gradient of divergence

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Graduate Getting 1st order ODE's from a 2nd order ODE

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Graduate Cauchy-riemann using polar co-ordinates

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Graduate Difference Between Laurent & Taylor Series Expansion of Complex Diff. Eq

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Undergrad How to find the steady state solution

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Graduate Bessel type differential equation

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Graduate What is the difference between simple fixed pole and simple movable

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Graduate Solving Hermite Polynomials: Find Form from Definition

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High School How are Differential Equations usually found in real world applications?

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Graduate Modeling diffusion through two layers

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Graduate Solving Diffusion PDE By Finite difference Method in fortran

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Graduate Can the Wave Equation Solution Use Only Positive Values of n?

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Undergrad Solving PDEs: Separation of Vars., Method of Characteristics

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Graduate What is the spiral shape produced by an attractive (1/r^2)sin(theta) force?

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Graduate Scaling parameters in central difference solution

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Undergrad Is the differential equation solvable?

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Graduate DEFINITE integral of sinaxsinbx FROM 0 to infinity

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Undergrad Linear Systems and Linear Differential Equations

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Graduate Integral simplification with dummy variable s

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Graduate Maximization problem of tuple set

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Undergrad Discrete Derivatives: 1st, 2nd & Higher Order

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Graduate 3-body solution in two dimensions

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Graduate How Do You Solve the Homogeneous Equation for ty''-(t+1)y'+y=0?

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Graduate Question Fourier half range expansion of function on 0 < x < p

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Graduate Falling Raindrop - Evaporation and - Diff Eq project

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Graduate Solving Dynamical Systems with Polar Coordinates

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Graduate Integral of square of Bessel function

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Graduate DIfferential equation for understanding cosmological expansion -

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Graduate Should the Force Term in Anharmonic Oscillators Only Include Odd Powers of x?

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Undergrad What Courses Follow AP Calculus for Aspiring Physics Students at UCLA?

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