Differential Equations: Essential Skills Practice Workbook with Answers

This workbook on ordinary differential equations serves either as a handy supplement to current students or as a useful review for students who have previously studied the material. This book focuses on essential techniques for solving and understanding differential equations. Topics include:first-order differential equationssecond-order differential equationsseparable equationslinear equationshomogeneous equationsexact differential equationsautonomous differential equationsthe Wronskianinitial-value and boundary-value problemsapplications of differential equationspower series solutionsrecurrence relationsLegendre, Chebyshev, Laguerre, and Hermite PolynomialsRodrigues’ formulaand moreThe author, Chris McMullen, Ph.D., has over twenty years of experience teaching math skills to physics students. He prepared this workbook of the Improve Your Math Fluency series to share his strategies for solving differential equations.