Truncated Taylor Solvers for Simple First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations

Abstract

Steven Kenneth Kauffmann

Certain exact solutions of first-order ordinary differential equations naturally become corresponding solvers for simple first- order ordinary differential equations whose form is the equality of a twice continuously differentiable function of the dependent variable to the derivative with respect the independent variable of the dependent variable. When the twice continuously differentiable function of the dependent variable is replaced by its truncated Taylor expansions through second order about its initial value, the resulting first-order ordinary differential equations have exact solutions that naturally become corresponding solvers for those simple first-order ordinary differential equations.

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