TY - BOOK AU - Saperstone, Stephen H. TI - Introduction to ordinary differential equations SN - 314058192 AV - QA 372 .S224 1998 PY - 1998/// CY - Pacific Grove, California PB - Brooks/Cole Publishing Company KW - DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS N2 - Integrated applications and models, along with graphical and numerical procedures motivate and explain mathematical techniques in this volume. Numerical methods are covered early in the course. Contents: 1. Introduction. 2. First-Order ODEs. 3. Geometry and Approximation of Solutions. 4. Linear Second-Order ODEs. 5. Additional Topics in Linear Seond-Order ODEs. 6. Laplace Transforms. 7. Series Solutions of Linear Second-Order ODEs. 8. Linear Two-Dimensional Systems of ODEs. 9. Nonlinear Two-Dimensional Systems of ODEs ER -