Texas Instruments TITANIUM TI-89 User Manual

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Differential Equation Graphing

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When ncurves is used, t0 is set temporarily at the
middle of the screen and initial conditions are distributed
evenly along the y axis, where:

The y values for the initial conditions are:
ymin + increment
ymin + 2

ù

(increment)

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ymin + ncurves

ù

(increment)

diftol

(Solution Method = RK only) Tolerance used by the RK
method to help select a step size for solving the
equation; must be

1E

L

14.

fldres

(Fields = SLPFLD or DIRFLD only) Number of columns
(1 through 80) used to draw a slope or direction field
across the full width of the screen.

Estep

(Solution Method = EULER only) Euler iterations
between tstep values; must be an integer >0. For more
accuracy, you can increase Estep without plotting
additional points.

dtime

(Fields = DIRFLD only) Point in time at which a direction
field is drawn.

Variable

Description

increment

ymax ymin

ncurves 1

+

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