Brian Vick is an associate professor at Virginia Tech in US, and a long time teacher and researcher. His style has been developed from teaching a variety of engineering and mathematical courses in the areas of heat transfer, thermodynamics, engineering design, computer programming, numerical analysis, and system dynamics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

• 1 Overview 12 Physical Processes 93 Modeling of Physical Processes 194 Calculus 375 Linear Algebra 776 Nonlinear Algebra: Root Finding 997 Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations 1198 Laplace Transforms 1399 Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations 15110 First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations 16911 Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations 193

"This slender book on applied mathematics packs a lot of material into 11 chapters. ...[The author] believes that visualization methods are superior for making the analysis meaningful and, to that end, he employs graphs, diagrams, and tables."-- N. Sadanand in Choice

Brian Vick is an associate professor at Virginia Tech in US, and a long time teacher and researcher. His style has been developed from teaching a variety of engineering and mathematical courses in the areas of heat transfer, thermodynamics, engineering design, computer programming, numerical analysis, and system dynamics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

• 1 Overview 12 Physical Processes 93 Modeling of Physical Processes 194 Calculus 375 Linear Algebra 776 Nonlinear Algebra: Root Finding 997 Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations 1198 Laplace Transforms 1399 Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations 15110 First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations 16911 Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations 193

"This slender book on applied mathematics packs a lot of material into 11 chapters. ...[The author] believes that visualization methods are superior for making the analysis meaningful and, to that end, he employs graphs, diagrams, and tables."-- N. Sadanand in Choice

Brian Vick is an associate professor at Virginia Tech in US, and a long time teacher and researcher. His style has been developed from teaching a variety of engineering and mathematical courses in the areas of heat transfer, thermodynamics, engineering design, computer programming, numerical analysis, and system dynamics at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.

• 1 Overview 12 Physical Processes 93 Modeling of Physical Processes 194 Calculus 375 Linear Algebra 776 Nonlinear Algebra: Root Finding 997 Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations 1198 Laplace Transforms 1399 Numerical Solutions of Ordinary Differential Equations 15110 First-Order Ordinary Differential Equations 16911 Second-Order Ordinary Differential Equations 193

"This slender book on applied mathematics packs a lot of material into 11 chapters. ...[The author] believes that visualization methods are superior for making the analysis meaningful and, to that end, he employs graphs, diagrams, and tables."-- N. Sadanand in Choice