Schaum's Outline of Differential Equations

AS I've said in my other Diff EQ textbook reviews, it is astonishing to me just how weak the textbooks are in terms of helping those of us who don't just "get it" right away. If someone could write a textbook that accomplished that goal, it would be world changing. Don't waste your cash, go bother the prof until they pass you out of sympathy.

This is a most definitely helpful guide for understanding differential equations in many different ways. It is laid out in an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand guide that will make understanding differential equations a breeze. Examples, exercises, and problem solutions with problems worked out in detail make this a go-to guide for successfully understanding the principles and methods of solving such equations.

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Normal overpriced textbook. Needed for class. Nothing special.

I have reviewed several versions of this work in connectionwith taking the course and passing the Engineering In TrainingLicensure Examination. Topics; such as, valuation of parameters,constants of integration, homogeneous and non-homogeneoussolutions, nth order equations, applications of differentialequations, equations in electric circuits and gram mixturesin organic chemistry are all covered in considerable detail.This work together with Boyce and DiPrima plus the professor's notes helped me to get an "A" in the course. DifferentialEquations is a course requiring considerable practice to masterthe various techniques. I spent between 15 minutes and 2 hoursper day depending upon the juncture point in the course.Obviously, studying for the mid-term and final exam requiredmore concentrated study. Overall, this book is a gem.You will need it to handle the various twists and turnsin the subject. It is geared toward the math major or engineering perspective so that the problems vary from simple to complex.In this course, you cannot let the so-called grass growunder your feet; otherwise, the pace of the presentationwill bury you in confusing details before long.

I like this book a lot more than my Diff. Eq. textbook, mostly because it focuses on application rather than abstraction. Bronson does a good job of explaining the mechanisms and applications of DE, while cutting through most of the kludgy rhetoric and laborious explanations of my course textbook. The examples are straight-forward without too much of a stretch to see how they work, while the explanations are quick and to-the-point.I would thoroughly recommend buying the Schaum's Easy Outline for DE in addition to this book, since I find the Easy Outline to be easier to pick up quickly on a first read. The Easy Outline is essentially the Outline, boiled down to the bare essentials and re-written to be easier to absorb quickly. The regular outline (this book) does a good job of filling in the gaps and providing more examples on top of the Easy Outilne.My copy (2nd edition, current) shows an original copyright date of 1973, with another in 1994 to reflect the Library of Congress title update (the title change was minute, and not worth repeating). I was surprised by the extreme similarity between some examples in the Ouline versus those in my course textbook (carrying a 2003 copyright in its 7th edition). It makes you wonder if this is the reference for the textbook writers!My only criticism of this book is that it is not a textbook. If it were, I wouldn't have to spend four times as much on another book which I use for not much more than the exercises. Oh, and the Outline HAS plenty of problems, both solved and not.

If you're a really dedicated student, you want to understand all the theory behind differential equations. However, if you're a slacker like me, you just want to know how to do the problem without really understanding what you're doing. This book does just that. I did not understand the method of Variation of Parameters with my college textbook, but totally got it using Schaum's. The three chapters that were spent on Laplace transforms were also very helpful, essential brushup using partial fractions and learning how to manipulate the inverse Laplace, which was not covered in my college textbook. Everyday applications such as the brine water tank and the spring problems and temperature were also covered in detail here. However, I found that Fourier Series were not covered extensively, and actually found my textbook to be better. Nonetheless, this book is essential and a big time saver when you don't have time. It definitely does not replace a professor, or a college textbook, but will quickly become you're best friend the night before the midterm.

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Le contenu du livre est entièrement conforme à mes attentes.Seule la couverture n'est pas celle affichée à la vente.Merci

初版の「マグロウヒル大学演習 微分方程式 Jr. Frank Ayres (著), 三嶋 信彦 (翻訳)」がよかったので、しかも第2版ということだったので期待したのですが、内容的には初版のほうの問題のレベルが高く微分方程式をきちんと勉強したい人にはちょっと物足りないと思います。もちろん英語の勉強という意味ではよいですが、レベル的には初版のほうがよいと思います。但しこの本はRichard Bronson によりほぼ改訂されており、特にラプラス変換についてはかなり詳しく説明されているのでこちらを勉強したい人にはお奨めです。