VisualDSolve: Visualizing Differential Equations with Mathematica�

by Dan Schwalbe, Stan Wagon

Overview

This title presents new ideas on the visualization of differential equations with user-configurable tools. The authors use the widely-used computer algebra system, Mathematica, to provide an integrated environment for programming, visualizing graphics, and running commentary for learning and working with differential equations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781461274735
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	09/17/2011
Edition description:	1997
Pages:	271
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Contents: Seeing and Controlling the Initial Values.- Style and Accuracy Control.- Labeling Plots.- Exact Solutions.- Direction Fields.- Isoclines.- Inflection Curves.- Controlling the Numerical Method.- Checking Solutions.- Normal Form.- System Solution Plots.- Phase Plots, Controlling the Style of the Orbits.- Fields of Fish.- Controlling to t-domain.- Varying a Parameter.- Nullcline Plots.- The Real Orbit Graph in 3-Dimensions, Systems of Three of More Equations.- Poincare Sections.- A Single Second-Order Equations.- Second-Order Systems.- Troubleshooting.