Worldwide Differential Equations with Linear Algebra by Robert McOwen?Ebook?
ISBN 9780984207121
Publisher : Worldwide Center of Mathematics, LLC; 1st Edition (January 1, 2012)
This textbook is designed for a one-semester undergraduate course in ordinary di erential
equations and linear algebra. We have had such a course at Northeastern University
since our conversion from the quarter to semester system required us to o er one course
instead of two. Many other institutions have a similarly combined course, perhaps for a
similar reason; consequently, there are many other textbooks available that cover both
di erential equations and linear algebra. Let me describe some of the features of my
book and draw some contrasts with the other texts on this subject.
Because many students taking the course at Northeastern are electrical engineering
majors who concurrently take a course in circuits, we always include the Laplace transform
in the rst half of the course. For this reason, in my textbook I cover rst and
second-order di erential equations as well as the Laplace transform in the rst three
chapters, then I turn to linear algebra in Chapters 4-6, and nally draw on both in the
analysis of systems of di erential equations in Chapter 7. This ordering of material is
unusual (perhaps unique) amongst other textbooks for this course, which generally alternate
more between di erential equations and linear algebra, and put Laplace transform
near the end of the book.
