/ode

Ordinary Differential Equations

Primary LanguageJupyter Notebook

Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE)

Several Jupyter notebooks on ODE and the scipy odeint solver (IVP)

Air drag problem

For example the air drag problem of a baloon, based on the lecture of Walter Lewin (8.01x, lec. 12)
MIT room 26-100, september 1999
lecture notes http://freepdfhosting.com/8e7861f909.pdf
In this lecture a 1st order nonlinear ODE has to be solved
But this IVP problem can not be solved with analytic/exact calculus
An excellent example for numerical computation with scipy

Airy function

solve the 2nd order ODE
y'' - (ax+b)y = 0
with substitution and the Airy functions

Euler equation

solve the 2nd order ODE
x^2y'' + axy' + by =0