I used this textbook (4th edition) for my junior year lab class. Although quite useful, I found it to be extremely dull. My opinion of this book may be biased due to the fact that I find the subject matter quite boring, no matter the presentation of it.
I did check my trial function by plugging it into the original ODE and it didn't take me long to figure out that it wasn't going to satisfy it. So I dusted off the old Differential equations textbook and found out what I was doing wrong. The actual solution is:
\phi(r) =...
Homework Statement
Solve for the flux distribution using the 1D neutron diffusion equation in a finite sphere for a uniformly distributed source emitting S0 neutrons/cc-sec.
My problem right now is that I can't figure out the boundary conditions for this problem. We usually work with...