Differential Equations

The book takes a problem solving approach, displaying equations, explanations, plots etc. with minimal input. The goal is to have a source that can be used independently (or in conjunction with a textbook) by students and instructors. MATLAB^® Symbolic toolbox makes it possible to get differential equations, analytical expressions, solutions, plots, etc. in a form that replicates an instructor’s classwork. The presentation is self-contained: it provides the theory and multiple methods of solving the problem, with each method clearly enunciated, plots annotated, and all steps accomplished by single or two-line input.

Professor P. Mohana Shankar received his B.Sc. (Physics) and M.Sc. (Physics) from Kerala University and M. Tech. (Applied Optics) and Ph. D. (Electrical Engineering) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India. He was the William Girling Watson visiting scholar at the School of Electrical Engineering, University of Sydney, Australia from 1981-1982. He has been at Drexel University since November 1982. He started as a postdoctoral fellow in Biomedical Engineering and since 2001, he is the Allen Rothwarf Professor in the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. He has more than 100 archival journal publications covering the fields of nonlinear acoustics, ultrasonic contrast agents, ultrasonic non-destructive testing, ultrasonic tissue characterization, statistical signal processing, medical statistics, fiberoptic communications, fiberoptic biosensors, wireless communications, modeling of fading and shadowing wireless channels, etc. His publications also include work in pedagogy of differential equations, linear algebra, wireless communications, and engineering probability, all with emphasis on the use of Matlab (www.mathworks.com). He is the author of three books in wireless communications.