IntroductionAn Introductory ExampleModelingDifferential EquationsForcing FunctionsBook ObjectivesObjects in a Gravitational FieldAn Example Antidifferentiation: Technique for Solving First-Order Ordinary Differential EquationsBack to Section 2-1Another ExampleSeparation of Variables: Technique for Solving First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations Back to Section 2-5Equations, Unknowns, and Degrees ofFreedomClassical Solutions of Ordinary Linear Differential EquationsExamples of Differential EquationsDefinition of a Linear Differential EquationIntegrating Factor MethodCharacteristic Equation.Abstract: IntroductionAn Introductory ExampleModelingDifferential EquationsForcing FunctionsBook ObjectivesObjects in a Gravitational FieldAn Example Antidifferentiation: Technique for Solving First-Order Ordinary Differential EquationsBack to Section 2-1Another ExampleSeparation of Variables: Technique for Solving First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations Back to Section 2-5Equations, Unknowns, and Degrees of FreedomClassical Solutions of Ordinary Linear Differential EquationsExamples of Differential EquationsDefinition of a Linear Differential EquationIntegrating Factor MethodCharacteristic Equation