DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS BY H. B. PHILLIPS, Pu. D. Associate Professor of Mathematics in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology NEW YORK JOHN WILEY & SONS, Inc. Lonpon: CHAPMAN & HALL, Limttep 1922Copyricut, 1922 BY H. B. PHILLIPS TECHNICAL COMPOSITION CO, CAMBRIDGE, MASS, U. 8. A.PREFACE With the formal exercise in solving the types of ordinary differential equations that usually occur it is the object of this text to combine a thorough drill in the solution of prob- lems in which the student sets up and integrates his own differential equation. For this purpose certain topics in mechanics and physics needed in groups of problems are briefly presented in the text. The problems have been collected from a variety of sources among which the author wishes particularly to mention the Advanced Calculus of Professor E. B. Wilson and the notes on Mathematics for Chemists prepared by Professors W. K. Lewis and F. L. Hitchcock. H. B. PHILLIPS CampBripce, Mass., Feb. 15, 1922.