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Differential equations

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction English
Code 310-2421/02
Abbreviation DR
Course title Differential equations
Credits 6
Coordinating department Department of Mathematics and Descriptive Geometry
Course coordinator RNDr. Martin Swaczyna, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction: basic notions, solution of DE, Cauchy problem, exitence and uniqueness of solution.
2. Solving methods of ordinary first-order DE: separation of variables, linear and Bernoulli DE, direction field and othogonal trajectories; special types of 1st order ODE.
3.Simple numerical methods: Picard approximation, Euler method.
4. Applications: kinematic equations, evolution an logistic models.
5. Linear ODE of higher order I - homogeneous equations: structure and properties of solution, equations with constant coefficients.
6. Linear ODE of higher order II: complete equation with constant coefficients, equation with special right side; selected applications: mechanical vibrations, electrical circuits.
7. Systems of DE: linear systems, homogeneous systems with constant coefficients.
8. Non-homogeneous linear systems: structure of solution, analytical methods for solving.
9. Phase-mapping of solution of homogeneous 2nd order system, introduction to the stability theory.
10. The backgrounds of partial DE: basic notions, method of characteristics for the 1st order PDE.
11. Second order PDE: typology, important equations in mathematical physics.

Literature

VLČEK, J., Mathematical modeling - http://mdg.vsb.cz/portal/dr/U18Mod.pdf
AHMAD, S., AMBROSETTI, A.: A Textbook of Ordinary Differential Equations. Springer, 2014. ISBN 978-3-319-02129-4 

Advised literature

LOGAN, J. D. A First Course in Differential Equations, Springer, 2011, 386 pp., ISBN 978-1-4419-7592-8