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annihilator method

noun

Etymology

From its use of an annihilator (in this case a differential operator) to render the equation more tractable.

Definitions

  1. A procedure used to find a particular solution to certain types of inhomogeneous ordinary…

    A procedure used to find a particular solution to certain types of inhomogeneous ordinary differential equations.

    • Although the annihilator method is very efficient when applicable, it is limited to equations whose right members R have a constant-coefficient annihilator.
    • The annihilator method is just one convenient method to select the form of solution to try when applying the method of undetermined coefficients.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for annihilator method. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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