Delta-K,  Teaching Ideas,  Volume 44, Issue 2

Solving First Order Linear Differential Equations by Using Variation of Parameters

Journal of the Mathematics Council of the Alberta Teachers’ Association

Volume 44 Issue 2, June 2007

25 – 28

Solving First Order Linear Differential Equations by Using Variation of Parameters

David E Dobbs

One of the most significant roles of mathematics has been to address the so-called “inverse problem” in science. This concerns providing information about a quantity y on the basis of having measured some experimental trace that has been left by y.