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I find differential equations in physics to be quite challenging so I'm looking for a book to help me master them.

I'm familiar with solving ordinary differential equations via seperation of variables but haven't really gone much further than that.

I was thinking about buying this: https://www.waterstones.com/book/differential-equations-for-dummies/steven-holzner//9780470178140?awc=3787_1547914453_50402e12ab1b834f04a3a61a1372e9b2&utm_source=259955&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=Genie+Shopping

However I'm open to recommendations on books that are specifically targeted to physics, or will help me in general to solve any differential equation.

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Are you a self-learning person? Any university course of math and physics for physicists suffice to cope with your difficulties. However, and I can say it from my professional experience, the learning never ends. So be ready to learn from different sources, points of view, etc., etc.

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  • Self-learning, although I'm doing A level physics (if you're from the UK), which isn't too heavy on the calculus – Featherball Jan 19 '19 at 17:24
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    No, I am an ex-Russian, now French Physicist-Theorist, retired (jobless to be exact). The most difficult part is hidden: it is the limits of applicability of this or that equation, the inequalities present (often implicitly) in Physics and absent in the math. – Vladimir Kalitvianski Jan 19 '19 at 17:55
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If you know calculus I think this book is just for you. I read most of the chapters as my Mathematical Methods in Physics Course. I think its highly student friendly. It has clear examples and then explains the usage of the equations in the physics area. It has also a pdf version.

Amazon

Pdf version

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