Solving General High-Order, Linear Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) @Eigensteve
Solving General High-Order, Linear Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs)  @Eigensteve
Uploaded October 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
This video shows how to solve general high-order linear differential equation systems, using the characteristic polynomial and linear superposition.

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0:00 Overview
1:56 Guess x(t) = exp(lambda*t) and Plug Into ODE
6:12 Characteristic Polynomial
8:43 The General Solution
11:48 Using Initial Conditions
16:35 It's *not* a Wronskian!!! (or is it!)
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