Recent content by Drood

I like the first textbook you presented. The more pages it has the better! It usually means the topics more thoroughly covered with lengthier explanations.

Thank you for your reply. I've done linear algebra, Calculus 1-3 (3 being the 'highest' calculus offered). I self studied solution methods to some basic ODEs such as first order and second order, homogenous and non-homogenous, linear...to prepare me for the mechanics course I just finished, so I...

Hi, I searched the forums but was unable to find any thread about DE textbooks so I'll start one. I'm looking for a good DE textbook, mostly focusing on ODEs, something comprehensive and complete and not too old fashioned. Does anybody have any recommendations? Thanks.

If you're near Toronto, I'll pick them up:)

I'm actually quite enthusiastic about collecting older texts. If I inherited such a collection, I would certainly keep as much of it as possible. I find that some older texts are all around better and are easier to learn from (I prefer a style with less colour, graphics, blabber--straight to...

I hope you can read what I wrote. The site kills photo quality apparently and I didn't have enough time to copy it with my scanner. Hope that helps, Drood

The tangent line passes through those two points. Since it is a LINE, you may use the equation to solve for the slope: m= (y2-y1) / (x2-x1) Once you have found the slope, use any of of the two coordinates to solve for 'c', the constant/y-intercept. Once you have the constant, simply write it...

Here's what I did, perhaps you may find the process of some use. 1) I computed the integral and applied the limits. 2) I know that the integral with the limit substitutions = 108 3) Now it's mostly a matter of expanding the terms and factoring to find solutions. 4) The only applicable solution...