5/26/2017 DifferentialEquationsFirstOrderDE's

FirstOrderDifferentialEquations
Inthischapterwewilllookatsolvingfirstorderdifferentialequations.Themostgeneralfirstorder
differentialequationcanbewrittenas,
(1)
Aswewillseeinthischapterthereisnogeneralformulaforthesolutionto(1).Whatwewilldoinsteadis
lookatseveralspecialcasesandseehowtosolvethose.Wewillalsolookatsomeofthetheorybehindfirst
orderdifferentialequationsaswellassomeapplicationsoffirstorderdifferentialequations.Belowisalistof
thetopicsdiscussedinthischapter.

LinearEquations Identifyingandsolvinglinearfirstorderdifferentialequations.

SeparableEquations Identifyingandsolvingseparablefirstorderdifferentialequations.Well
alsostartlookingatfindingtheintervalofvalidityfromthesolutiontoadifferentialequation.

ExactEquations Identifyingandsolvingexactdifferentialequations.Welldoafewmoreinterval
ofvalidityproblemshereaswell.

BernoulliDifferentialEquations InthissectionwellseehowtosolvetheBernoulliDifferential
Equation.Thissectionwillalsointroducetheideaofusingasubstitutiontohelpussolvedifferential
equations.

Substitutions Wellpickupwherethelastsectionleftoffandtakealookatacoupleofother
substitutionsthatcanbeusedtosolvesomedifferentialequationsthatwecouldntotherwisesolve.

IntervalsofValidity Herewewillgiveanindepthlookatintervalsofvalidityaswellasan
answertotheexistenceanduniquenessquestionforfirstorderdifferentialequations.

ModelingwithFirstOrderDifferentialEquations Usingfirstorderdifferentialequationsto
modelphysicalsituations.Thesectionwillshowsomeveryrealapplicationsoffirstorder
differentialequations.

EquilibriumSolutions Wewilllookatthebehaviorofequilibriumsolutionsandautonomous
differentialequations.

EulersMethod Inthissectionwelltakeabrieflookatamethodforapproximatingsolutionsto
differentialequations.

http://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/Classes/DE/IntroFirstOrder.aspx 1/1