Differential Equations - Surrey
www.maths.surrey.ac.uk/explore/vithyaspages/coupled.htmlAn example - where a, b, c and d are given constants, and both y and x are functions of t. How do we solve coupled linear ordinary differential equations? Use elimination to convert the system to a single second order differential equation. Another initial condition is worked out, since we need 2 initial conditions to solve a second order problem.
Tutorial 7: Coupled numerical differential equations in ...
www.phys.ksu.edu › personal › washburnI used the Lagrange equation to give two coupled 2nd order differential equations, these equations can be found from the above webpage. To make things less complicated I then write these as four coupled 1st order differential equations and solve numerically. Here I define x1=j1, x3=j2, x2=dj1/dt and x4=dj2/dt. Note that since I have four coupled 1st order differential equations, I need four initial conditions.