# HG changeset patch # User Santosh G. Vattam # Date 1271670696 -19800 # Node ID 1ae645cb7c5737bd8297ea0a31720b8bbc05b319 # Parent cc4f615f3f8c87f89f6465e363d6b2bca7b295b9# Parent 62be6012121fd01f3674f82ccdb08264ddddb6a0 Branches merged. diff -r 62be6012121f -r 1ae645cb7c57 odes.org --- a/odes.org Mon Apr 19 15:12:54 2010 +0530 +++ b/odes.org Mon Apr 19 15:21:36 2010 +0530 @@ -10,7 +10,9 @@ Welcome friends. In this tutorial we shall look at solving Ordinary Differential Equations, - ODE henceforth using odeint in Python. + ODE henceforth using odeint in Python. In this tutorial we shall be using + the concepts of arrays, functions and lists which we have covered in various + previous tutorials. Let's consider the classic problem of the spread of an epidemic in a population. @@ -19,7 +21,7 @@ problem Let us use L=25000, k=0.00003. Let the boundary condition be y(0)=250. - Lets fire up IPython by typing ipython -pylab interpreter. + Let's now fire up IPython by typing ipython -pylab interpreter. As we saw in one of earlier session, sometimes pylab wont 'import' all packages. For solving 'ordinary differential equations' also we shall @@ -122,6 +124,7 @@ in the slide. Thus we come to the end of this tutorial on solving ordinary differential - equations in Python. In this tutorial we have learnt, + equations in Python. In this tutorial we have learnt how to solve ordinary + differential equations of first and second order. *** Notes