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Differential Equations James S. Cook Liberty University Department of Mathematics Spring 2014 2 preface format of my notes These notes were prepared with LATEX. You'll notice a number of standard conventions in my notes: 1. definitions are in green. 2. remarks are in red. 3. theorems, propositions, lemmas and corollaries are in blue. 4. proofs start with a Proof: and are concluded with a . However, we also use the discuss... theorem format where a calculation/discussion leads to a theorem and the formal proof is left to the reader. The purpose of these notes is to organize a large part of the theory for this course. Your text has much additional discussion about how to calculate given problems and, more importantly, the detailed analysis of many applied problems. I include some applications in these notes, but my focus is much more on the topic of computation and, where possible, the extent of our knowledge. There are some comments in the text and in my notes which are not central to the course. To learn what is most important you should come to class every time we meet. sources and philosophy of my notes I draw from a number of excellent sources to create these notes. Naturally, having taught from the text for about a dozen courses, Nagle Saff and Snider has had great influence in my thinking on DEqns, however, more recently I have been reading: the classic Introduction to Differential Equa- tions by Albert Rabenstein. I reccomend that text for further reading. In particular, Rabenstein's treatment of existence and convergence is far deeper than I attempt in these notes. In addition, the text Differential Equations with Applications by Ritger and Rose is a classic text with many details that are lost in the more recent generation of texts. I am also planning to consult the texts by Rice & Strange, Zill, Edwards & Penny , Finney and Ostberg, Coddington, Arnold, Zachmanoglou and Thoe, Hille, Ince, Blanchard-Devaney and Hall, Martin, Campbell as well as others I'll add to this list once these notes are more complete (some year). Additional examples are also posted. My website has several hundred pages of solutions from prob- lems in Nagle Saff and Snider. I hope you will read these notes and Zill as you study differential equations this semester. My old lecture notes are sometimes useful, but I hope the theory in these notes is superior in clarity and extent. My primary goal is the algebraic justification of the com- putational essentials for differential equations. For the Spring 2014 semester I have changed to Zill as the primary text. I decided to leave some comments about Nagel Saff and Snider and Riger & Rose in these notes, I am sorry if they are a distraction, but if you are curious then you are free to take a look at my copy of Nagel Saff and Snider in office hours. You don't need to do that, but the 3 resource is there if you want it. I hope you can tell from these notes and your homework that my thinking comes from a variety of sources and there is much more for everyone to learn. Of course we will hit all the basics in your course. The topics which are very incomplete in this current version of my notes is: 1. theory of ODEs, Picard iteration (will give handout from Ritger & Rose to help with home- work problem on topic) 2. the special case of Frobenius method 3. the magic formulas of Ritger and Rose on constant coefficient case (these appear in the older texts like Ince, but have been lost in many of the newer more expensive but less useful texts) 4. theory of orthogonal functions, Fourier techniques 5. separation of variables to solve PDEs 6. linear system analysis via Greens functions and the transfer function (it is nice that Zill has a section on Greene's functions, I'll post the pdf with my thoughts gleaned from Finney & Ostberg, I'll wait until we cover Laplace transforms to have that discussion) I have hand-written notes on most of these topics and I will post links as the semester progresses to appropriate pdfs. More than we need is already posted on my website, but I'd like to have everything in these notes at t ! 1. James Cook, January 12, 2014. version 3.0 4 Contents 1 terminology and goals 7 1.1 terms and conditions . .7 1.2 philosophy and goals . .9 1.3 a short overview of differential equations in basic physics . 12 1.4 course overview . 14 2 ordinary first order problem 15 2.1 separation of variables . 16 2.2 integrating factor method . 18 2.3 exact equations . 20 2.3.1 conservative vector fields and exact equations . 22 2.3.2 inexact equations and integrating factors . 24 2.4 substitutions . 27 2.5 physics and applications . 32 2.5.1 physics . 32 2.5.2 applications . 34 2.6 visualizations, existence and uniqueness . 47 3 ordinary n-th order problem 53 3.1 linear differential equations . 54 3.2 operators and calculus . 64 3.2.1 complex-valued functions of a real variable . 66 3.3 constant coefficient homogeneous problem . 69 3.4 annihilator method for nonhomogeneous problems . 73 3.5 variation of parameters . 79 3.6 reduction of order . 85 3.7 operator factorizations . 87 3.8 cauchy euler problems . 89 3.9 applications . 93 3.9.1 springs with and without damping . 93 3.9.2 the RLC-circuit . 95 3.9.3 springs with external force . 97 5 6 CONTENTS 3.10 RLC circuit with a voltage source . 100 4 the series solution technique 103 4.1 calculus of series . 104 4.2 solutions at an ordinary point . 106 4.3 classification of singular points . 112 4.4 frobenius method . 114 4.4.1 the repeated root technique . 120 5 systems of ordinary differential equations 123 5.1 operator methods for systems . 124 5.2 calculus and matrices . 127 5.3 the normal form and theory for systems . 137 5.4 solutions by eigenvector . 142 5.5 solutions by matrix exponential . 151 5.6 nonhomogeneous problem . 163 6 The Laplace transform technique 165 6.1 History and overview . 166 6.2 Definition and existence . 167 6.3 The inverse transform . 175 6.3.1 how to solve an ODE via the method of Laplace transforms . 178 6.4 Discontinuous functions . 181 6.5 transform of periodic functions . 183 6.6 The Dirac delta device . 186 6.7 Convolution . 191 6.8 Linear system theory . 194 7 energy analysis and the phase plane approach 195 7.1 phase plane and stability . 196 8 partial differential equations 201 8.1 overview . 201 8.2 Fourier technique . 201 8.3 boundary value problems . 202 8.3.1 zero endpoints . 202 8.3.2 zero-derivative endpoints . 202 8.3.3 mixed endpoints . 203 8.4 heat equations . 204 8.5 wave equations . 208 8.6 Laplace's equation . 211 Chapter 1 terminology and goals 1.1 terms and conditions A differential equation (or DEqn) is simply an equation which involves derivatives. The order of a differential equation is the highest derivative which appears nontrivially in the DEqn. The domain of definition is the set of points for which the expression defining the DEqn exists. We consider real independent variables and for the most part real depedent variables, however we will have occasion to consider complex-valued objects. The complexity will occur in the range but not in the domain. We continue to use the usual notations for derivatives and integrals in this course. I will not define these here, but we should all understand the meaning of the symbols below: the following are examples of ordinary dervatives dy d2y dny d~r dx dy = y0 = y00 = y(n) = ; dx dt2 dtn dt dt dt because the dependent variables depend on only one independent variable. Notation is not reserved globally in this course. Sometimes x is an independent variable whereas other times it dy is used as a dependent variable, context is key; dx suggests x is independent and y is dependent dx whereas dt has independent variable t and dependent variable x. A DEqn which involves only ordinary derivatives is called an Ordinary Differential Equation or as is often customary an "ODE". The majority of this course we focus our efforts on solving and analyzing ODEs. However, even in the most basic first order differential equations the concept of partial differentiation and functions of several variables play a key and notable role. For example, an n-th order ODE is an equation of the form F (y(n); y(n−1); : : : ; y00; y0; y; x) = 0. For example, y00 + 3y0 + 4y2 = 0 (n = 2) y(k)(x) − y2 − xy = 0 (n = k) When n = 1 we say we have a first-order ODE, often it is convenient to write such an ODE in dy the form dx = f(x; y). For example, dy dr = x2 + y2 has f(x; y) = x2 + y2) = rθ + 7 has f(r; θ) = rθ + 7 + 7 dx dθ 7 8 CHAPTER 1. TERMINOLOGY AND GOALS A system of ODEs is a set of ODEs which share a common independent variable and a set of several dependent variables. For example, the following system has dependent variables x; y; z and independent variable t: dx d2y dz p = x2 + y + sin(t)z; = xyz + et; = x2 + y2 + z2: dt dt2 dt The examples given up to this point were all nonlinear ODEs because the dependent variable or it's derivatives appeared in a nonlinear manner.