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Picard’s Method For Solving Differential Equations. Not this Picard. This Picard.
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Picard’s Method For Solving Differential Equations
Picard’s Method is an alternative method for finding a solution to differential equations. It uses successive approximation in order to estimate what a solution would look like. The approximations resemble Taylor-Series expansions. As with Taylor-Series when taken to infinity, they cease to be approximations and become the function they are approximating.
What We Will Do • Derive Picard’s Method in a general form • Apply Picard’s Method to a simple differential equation. • Briefly Mention the greater implications and uses of Picard’s Method.
Differential Equation: General Form: ,
Iteration: Nth term:
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But! This is the Mclaurin Series Expansion for… Drum Roll, Please.
Other Implementations: Picard’s method is integral (ha ha ha…) to the Picard-Lindeloef Theorem of Existence and Uniqueness of Solutions to Differential Equations. It uses the fact that these successive integral approximations converge which allows you to claim that for a certain region that the solution is unique. Sweet!
But is it useful as a solving method? This is still unclear. As with most mathematics, you must be able to analyze a problem before you start and decide for yourself what will be the most effective. While it can be a straightforward approach it also gets computationally heavy. Lastly…
Picard’s Advice on Problem solving: “We must anticipate, and not make the same mistake once” -Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the USS Enterprise