DERIVATOR I: A Program for Visual Inspection of Solutions to First-Order Non-Linear Differential Equations
| dc.contributor.author | Minsky, Marvin | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2004-10-04T14:37:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2004-10-04T14:37:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1963-12-01 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AIM-062 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6067 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Derivator is a PDP-1 program for examining the solutions to differential equations by inspection of a visual display of trajectories. Because fixed-point arithmetic is used (in order to maintain visual display speeds), Derivator must be regarded as a qualitative tool. It is subject to truncation error in the trajectory-following program, and round-off error due to 'underflow' in the function-definition programs for dy and dx. Still it appears to be very suitable for studying topology of solutions around singularities, etc. The display shows the solution curves ('characteristics') in the x-y plane. They are generated parametrically. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 7 p. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 391594 bytes | |
| dc.format.extent | 306966 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/postscript | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | AIM-062 | en_US |
| dc.title | DERIVATOR I: A Program for Visual Inspection of Solutions to First-Order Non-Linear Differential Equations | en_US |
