Electronic Proceedings of the Twenty-first Annual International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics

New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12-15, 2009

Paper C008

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The Use of Maple and Laplace Transforms in Solving Initial Value Problems

Somasundaram Velummylum


Claflin University

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ABSTRACT

There is more than one method to solve initial value problems analytically. One of the methods is to use Laplace transforms. We discuss some examples of dynamical systems to include spring mass system and a simple pendulum in solving initial value problems with the use of Maple and Laplace transforms.

Keyword(s): differential equations, Maple