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The laws of the exact sciences are often formulated as differential equations, that is, equations connecting functions and their derivatives. In this chapter, we present examples from three different fields: mechanical vibrations, population growth, and chemical reactions.
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Lax, P.D., Terrell, M.S. (2014). Differential Equations. In: Calculus With Applications. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7946-8_10
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