Elementary differential equations /
Earl D. Rainville and Phillip E. Bedient
- Seventh edition
- New York : Macmillan Publishing Company, c1989
- xiii , 545 pages ; 22 cm .
Includes index.
Chapter1. Definition, families of curves -- Chapter2. Equations of order one -- Chapter3. Elementary applications -- Chapter4. Additional topics on equations of order one -- Chapter5. Linear differential equations -- Chapter6. Linear equation with constant coefficients -- Chapter7. Nonhomogeneous equations: undetermined coefficients -- Chapter8. Variation of parameters -- Chapter9. Linear systems of equations -- Chapter10. Applications -- Chapter11. The Laplace Transform -- Chapter12. Inverse Transform -- Chapter13. Linear System of Equations -- 14 Electric circuits and networks -- Chapter15. The existence and uniqueness of solutions -- Chapter16. Nonlinear equations -- Chapter17. Power series solutions -- Chapter18. Solutions near regular singular points -- Chapter19. Equations of hypergeometric type -- Chapter20. Numerical methods -- Chapter21. Partial differential equations -- Chapter22. Orthogonal sets of functions -- Chapter23. Fourier series -- Chapter24. Boundary value problems -- Chapter25. Additional properties of the laplace transform -- Chapter26. Partial differential equations; transform methods .
The balance between developing techniques for solving equations and the theory necessary to support those techniques remains essentially unchanged.