Maxima by Example ch. 3 Total Rewrite:
Chapter 3: Ordinary Differential Equation Tools
Chapter 3 has been completely restructured, rewritten, and renamed.
The name of the pdf file is now mbe3ode1.pdf.
1. --mbe3ode1.pdf : July 19, 2009, Maxima 5.18.1, 44 pages
2. --mbe3toc.txt : Detailed Table of Contents, July, 19, 2009
3. --mbe3code.txt : Code input text file: July, 19, 2009, Maxima 5.18.1
Chapter 3 Topics
Solution of One First Order Ordinary Differential Equation (ODE),
Exact Solution with ode2 and ic1,
Exact Solution with desolve,
Numerical Solution and Plot with plotdf,
Numerical Solution with Fourth Order Runge-Kutta: rk,
Solution of One Second Order or Two First Order ODE's,
Exact Solution with ode2, ic2, and eliminate,
Exact Solution with desolve, atvalue, and eliminate,
Numerical Solution and Plot with plotdf,
Numerical Solution with Fourth Order Runge-Kutta: rk,
Ex.1: Fall in Gravity with Air Friction: Terminal Velocity,
Ex.2: One Nonlinear First Order ODE,
Ex.3: One First Order ODE Which is Not Linear in Y',
Ex.4: Linear Oscillator with Damping,
Ex.5: Underdamped Linear Oscillator with Sinusoidal Driving Force,
Ex.6: Regular and Chaotic Motion of a Driven Damped Planar Pendulum
Using contrib_ode for ODE's
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ch. 4 is next scheduled for a rewrite with temp title
"Matrix Tools and Methods".
Ted Woollett
http://www.csulb.edu/~woollett/