From 61cefa10c056e97aedc7df559a8c8080c7b2093b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Scarlett Gauthier <s.s.gauthier@student.tudelft.nl> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 11:35:18 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Begin adding page 1 --- src/differential_equations_2.md | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/differential_equations_2.md b/src/differential_equations_2.md index 92b254c..2c26674 100644 --- a/src/differential_equations_2.md +++ b/src/differential_equations_2.md @@ -1 +1,12 @@ -# Linear $n-th$ orer differential equations \ No newline at end of file +# Higher order linear differential equations + +In the previous lecture, we focused on first order linear differential equations +as well as systems of such equations. In this lecture we switch focus to DE's +which involve higher derivatives of the function we would like to solve for. To +facilitate this change we are going to change notation. In the previous lecture +we wrote differential equations for $x(t)$. In this lecture we will write DE's +of $y(x)$, where $y$ is an unknown function and $x$ is the independent variable. +For this purpose we make the following definitions, + +$$y' = \frac{dy}{dx}, \ y'' = \frac{d^2 y}{dx^2}, \ \cdots, \ y^{(n)} = \frac{d^n y}{dx^n}.$$ + -- GitLab