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Schaum's Outline
Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations
Study smarter and stay on top of your differential equations course with the bestselling Schaum's Outline--now with the NEW Schaum's app and website!
Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations, Fifth Edition is the go-to study guide for all students of science who need to learn or refresh their knowledge of differential equations. With an outline format that facilitates quick and easy review and mirrors the course in scope and sequence, this book helps you understand basic concepts and get the extra practice you need to excel in the course. It supports the all major differential equations textbooks and is useful for study in Calculus (I, II, and III), Mathematical Modeling, Introductory Differential Equations and Differential Equations.
Chapters include an Introduction to Modeling and Qualitative Methods, Classifications of First-Order Differential Equations, Linear Differential Equations, Variation of Parameters, Initial-Value Problems for Linear Differential Equations, Graphical and Numerical Methods for Solving First-Order Differential Equations, Solutions of Linear Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients by Laplace Transforms, and more.
Features:
NEW to this edition: the new Schaum's app and website!
NEW CHAPTERS include Autonomous Differential Equations and Qualitative Methods; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; three chapters dealing with Solutions of Systems of Autonomous Equations via Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (real and distinct, real and equal, and complex conjugate Eigenvalues)
20 problem-solving videos online
563 solved problems
Outline format provides a quick and easy review of differential equations
Clear, concise explanations of differential equations concepts
Hundreds of examples with explanations of key concepts
Supports all major textbooks for differential equations courses
Appropriate for the following courses: Calculus (I, II, and III), Mathematical Modeling, Introductory Differential Equations, and Differential Equations
Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations, Fifth Edition is the go-to study guide for all students of science who need to learn or refresh their knowledge of differential equations. With an outline format that facilitates quick and easy review and mirrors the course in scope and sequence, this book helps you understand basic concepts and get the extra practice you need to excel in the course. It supports the all major differential equations textbooks and is useful for study in Calculus (I, II, and III), Mathematical Modeling, Introductory Differential Equations and Differential Equations.
Chapters include an Introduction to Modeling and Qualitative Methods, Classifications of First-Order Differential Equations, Linear Differential Equations, Variation of Parameters, Initial-Value Problems for Linear Differential Equations, Graphical and Numerical Methods for Solving First-Order Differential Equations, Solutions of Linear Differential Equations with Constant Coefficients by Laplace Transforms, and more.
Features:
NEW to this edition: the new Schaum's app and website!
NEW CHAPTERS include Autonomous Differential Equations and Qualitative Methods; Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors; three chapters dealing with Solutions of Systems of Autonomous Equations via Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors (real and distinct, real and equal, and complex conjugate Eigenvalues)
20 problem-solving videos online
563 solved problems
Outline format provides a quick and easy review of differential equations
Clear, concise explanations of differential equations concepts
Hundreds of examples with explanations of key concepts
Supports all major textbooks for differential equations courses
Appropriate for the following courses: Calculus (I, II, and III), Mathematical Modeling, Introductory Differential Equations, and Differential Equations
434 pages, Paperback
Published October 20, 2021
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June 30, 2018
Theory and Problems of Differential Equations is a member of the Schaum’s Outline Series. Written by Richard Bronson, this book meets more of my needs than the one from the Dummies Series. This is mostly because it includes problems to solve with their solutions. It is also more practical since it actually uses numbers in the problems rather than just variables and their relationships. Not to be misleading, though, since I don’t actually have classes or a job that requires me to know how to calculate Differential Equations. This is all for my own satisfaction and interest.
Differential Equations is a linchpin of modern mathematics, and by extension, the modern sciences. There is barely a subject using math that does not have some kind of application of these nifty little equations. It allows one to solve an equation using an unknown function and its derivatives. How exactly is that helpful, you ask? Well, if you have any field or equation where a quantity is changing, you can bet on Differential Equations being helpful or even fundamental.
Anyway, while I would say that both books were helpful, this one was more helpful than the other one. There isn’t really much else to say about this book, it follows the same structure as most other mathematical texts. It builds on what was introduced and proceeds from first principles. The best part about the book is the worked problems and the practice problems. I mean, the basic math doesn’t change all that much. The only thing that really changed was the level of computing power available to tackle the matrices and other mathematical constructs used in these subjects.
The book is not really that long. It doesn’t devote too many pages to a single subject. This allows it to cover a lot of subjects within Differential Equations. In any case, this book was really informative and well-done. There is one little point that bothers me; the book uses Imperial Units and if you are a person who likes your science to be Metric, it might be more than you can handle. That is honestly the only demerit to this book. If it didn’t use slugs for mass it would be great.
Differential Equations is a linchpin of modern mathematics, and by extension, the modern sciences. There is barely a subject using math that does not have some kind of application of these nifty little equations. It allows one to solve an equation using an unknown function and its derivatives. How exactly is that helpful, you ask? Well, if you have any field or equation where a quantity is changing, you can bet on Differential Equations being helpful or even fundamental.
Anyway, while I would say that both books were helpful, this one was more helpful than the other one. There isn’t really much else to say about this book, it follows the same structure as most other mathematical texts. It builds on what was introduced and proceeds from first principles. The best part about the book is the worked problems and the practice problems. I mean, the basic math doesn’t change all that much. The only thing that really changed was the level of computing power available to tackle the matrices and other mathematical constructs used in these subjects.
The book is not really that long. It doesn’t devote too many pages to a single subject. This allows it to cover a lot of subjects within Differential Equations. In any case, this book was really informative and well-done. There is one little point that bothers me; the book uses Imperial Units and if you are a person who likes your science to be Metric, it might be more than you can handle. That is honestly the only demerit to this book. If it didn’t use slugs for mass it would be great.
January 29, 2017
This book is extremely useful for doing problems to jog your memory. I can't imagine learning more complicated methods and algorithms from it though. For example, the chapter on e^At is so incredibly terse (I believe the entire concept is condensed into one-and-a-half pages) that I had to refer back to an old textbook just to figure out what the hell the author was talking about. There are also typos in the solved problems here and there. Nothing major, however.
Those problems aside, this is one of the best Schaum's books I've ever used.
Those problems aside, this is one of the best Schaum's books I've ever used.
March 11, 2018
i went through first 150 pages only, for review, this is a really great helping book, you will learn the plug and chug of differential equations
July 19, 2018
It's good for practice problems
June 23, 2015
good book for me
January 3, 2016
Perfect for intended purpose. Undergrad DEQ classes only cover methods anyway, I don't know why they always pick textbooks full of theory that nobody cares about.
July 31, 2016
Professor gave us extra homework problems out of this book. It was okay.
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