A First Course in Differential Equations (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)

"This text is designed for the standard post-calculus course in elementary differential equations. It is a brief one-semester treatment of the basic ideas, models, and solution methods. The book, which serves as an alternative to existing texts for instructors who want more concise coverage, emphasizes graphical, analytical, and numerical approaches and is written with clear language in a user-friendly format. It provides students with the tools to continue on to the next level in applying differential equations to problems in engineering, science, and applied mathematics." "Many exercises are provided, in addition to examples from engineering, ecology, physics, economics, and other areas. An expanded section on the required linear algebra is provided, and an appendix contains templates of Maple and MATLAB commands and programs that are useful in differential equations."--BOOK JACKET.J. David Logan is the author of 'A First Course in Differential Equations (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics)', published 2005 under ISBN 9780387259635 and ISBN 0387259635.