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Summary: A Great book for engineering students
Review: I'm a engineering student at Illinois Institute of Tech. I used this book for my differential equation class. I found this book very useful for both my independent study and catching up with my school work.
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Summary: A Great book for engineering students
Review: I'm a engineering student at Illinois Institute of Tech. I used this book for my differential equation class. I found this book very useful for both my independent study and catching up with my school work.
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Summary: this book is better than others
Review: I'm using this book for my diff eq class. I think it's good because it has plenty of application problems. I don't like doing math just for the sake of doing math. I like to relate problems to what can be solved with them. As in any math class, you can't learn the stuff by reading the examples like you're reading the newspaper. When it comes down to it you have to spend the majority of your time working problems. This book (sixth edition) does have all odd answers in the back. Maybe this edition is different from earlier ones.
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Summary: decent
Review: It's been a long time since I had this book for a course (so take this with a grain of salt...), & I had a pretty good instructor, but this book still helped reinforce the ideas. I don't think it makes a difference whether a book has a solution manual, just plug your solution into the equation to check your answer. A solution manual for a differential equations text is a bit superfluous, IMO, since solutions don't all look the same. Another good text is the one by Rainville/Bedient.
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Summary: decent
Review: It's been a long time since I had this book for a course (so take this with a grain of salt...), & I had a pretty good instructor, but this book still helped reinforce the ideas. I don't think it makes a difference whether a book has a solution manual, just plug your solution into the equation to check your answer. A solution manual for a differential equations text is a bit superfluous, IMO, since solutions don't all look the same. Another good text is the one by Rainville/Bedient.
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Summary: Lacking pedagogical stimuli or skill ?
Review: Maybe this was an attempt to be unique in presentation of the subject ; yet , contorting paraphrased material into a potato - salad of words is an obvious sign of bad technical writing ; perhaps , poor confidence in subject , or who knows what ?!?! . The layout of this text is the worst I've seen in a mathematics text -- both , calculations and " explanations " are blobbed as run - on , rambling sentences contained into page - sized paragraphs ; unbearable amount of conceptual abstraction almost at every definition of critical importance . There lies a clue that descriptive terms were chosen by dictionary research of most subtle synonyms of such; moreover , an overuse of unnecessary adjectives , of same descent , to increment the confusing flush . This text is obviously designed to be NOT USER FRIENDLY on purpose !! .
To me , that defeats the whole goal of even attempting to write books for students . This one should , in its full definition , be banned from all pedagogical institutions -- those , where are those with a desire to learn . I personally did not encounter difficulty of solving this " book's " chapter problems ; however, due to the diffused presentation of theory , am still lacking satisfaction of conceptual clarity of such a rich subject .
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Summary: This is an excellent text
Review: The approach by Zill is pedagogically sound...though it requires that the student be very well grounded in the fundamentals prior to starting the text. I believe Zill wants you to take a very active approach to how you learn the material: this is evidenced by the dearth of solutions in the back of the text. Many undergraduates approach subjects through memorization as the means to learning the subject; this approach does not give the student any notion of how to solve problems...all jobs in the real world are problems...I recommend this book!
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Summary: This is an excellent text
Review: The approach by Zill is pedagogically sound...though it requires that the student be very well grounded in the fundamentals prior to starting the text. I believe Zill wants you to take a very active approach to how you learn the material: this is evidenced by the dearth of solutions in the back of the text. Many undergraduates approach subjects through memorization as the means to learning the subject; this approach does not give the student any notion of how to solve problems...all jobs in the real world are problems...I recommend this book!
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Summary: With such an abundance of books on this topic, skip this one
Review: This book lacks the cohesion one is accustomed to in similar texts. The "modeling applications" are amotivational, and typically don't explain the real world meaning of the models being used. The text frequently "explains" new topics by doing one example, rather than outlining the general case. In short, one can learn how to solve differential equations by using this text, but with such an abundance of material out there, my advice would be to use something else.
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Summary: . Excellent Undergraduate Text ! .
Review: This is a staggering inaugural text for a freshman pupil . Very UNEQUIVOCALLY alleged results with an opulence of applications to physics and engineering , though-provoking project modules ; I should add , there are more or less half of answers and a prosperousness of exciting exercizes . The author takes a rather contemplative and classic modus to his writing , inclusive of some rigor ; yet , I shall laud that there should be more uniqueness and existence regarded remarks , including the PROOF ; maybe . .
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