Esben Byskov wrote:
> *Many thanks to Barton Willis,
>
> In this case determining the constants from the boundary
> conditions takes some effort. The way both Maple and
> MuPAD (I gather that Mathematica does it in a similar
> way) handle my problem seems easier.
>
> It is somewhat surprising that, given the fact that maxima
> has been around for so many more years than the other
> programs, it does not have a similar feature.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Esben Byskov
>
In fact you can use colnew in maxima, which is able to solve (numerically)
such problems and much more complicated ones (non linear, with many boundary
conditions,etc.) Thanks to Raymond Toy colnew is included in maxima with a
basic wrapper. I am always hoping to provide a simpler to use wrapper, but
for the moment slowly learning lisp in my free time.....
--
Michel Talon