ordinary differential equations

[mr.montreal]

i'm taking ODE this semester, and was wondering what topics of calculus I should review.

thanks in advance.

[filtherton]

If it is anything like calc 2 than you should definitely review slamming your head on a table in frustration. It bruises less the more you do it.

[fckm]

oh pooh.
ODE's aren't very difficult at all.
It's the PDE's that'll get you.

[shred_head]

Yeah I found DiffEQs pretty easy, but then again my professor wasn't very difficult either. And yes partial DiffEQs tend to be much harder than the ordinary ones. All you really need to know from calculus for diffs is basically just how to differentiate and how to integrate. It's pretty straight-forward material. You do a lot with integrating/differentiating logs if i remember correctly. Just study and you shouldn't have many problems.

[frozenstellar]

i'm taking a subject heavy in ODE's this semester, and as people have said, know your differentiation/integration rules and techniques, and you'll pick it up easily.

only identities i've had to commit to memory have been the hyperbolic trig function identities. the remainder i've retained from high school maths.

with the exception of polar co-ordinates & applications of polar integration, because i'd never seen them before, and the class had assumed knowledge in them, its been a pretty cruisy run.

from what i hear, i'm glad i'm jumping ship before hitting PDE's.

[mr.montreal]

thanks for the replies

[the420star]

maybe i am way late, but i would say you dont need to review much... ODE sort of stands alone from calc 1 2 3. what you remeber right now from those classes is probably enough.

[phukraut]

reviewing some linear algebra won't hurt either.