This web site is so under construction that it looks like the Big Dig in 1996!

Project overview:

1. serving as an archive,
2. maintaining an annotated listing and links to other sites devoted to the teaching of differential equations, and
3. providing universal web access to easy-to-use ODE calculators that produce exact as well as approximate solutions whenever possible.

The development of prototypes (see below) of these calculators began in Fall 2004, and full implementation of the site will follow an evaluation of this initial phase of the project.

webODEs calculators:

• A calculator for initial-value problems for first-order equations

Other ODE calculators:

• Professor John Polking of Rice University has written two very useful programs, DField and PPlane. Posted on his web page are versions that run with the aid of MATLAB as well as slightly different java versions that run over the Internet and do not depend on MATLAB.
• Another NSF/DUE/CCLI-funded project, Phaser, produced a standalone numerical solver with a variety of features. There are Windows, Linux, and UNIX versions available. The software comes with a free 21-day evaluation period, and a single-user license is $49.99.

Other resources on the web:

• Tom Judson, Chris Leary, and Mike Breen compiled a list of articles on differential equations as part of the Undergraduate Faculty Program at the 2001 IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute.
• Mike Breen and Meg Dillon compiled a list of online ODE resources as part of the Undergraduate Faculty Program at the 2001 IAS/Park City Mathematics Institute.
• Project Links at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has a number of modules that involve ordinary differential equations and their applications in engineering and science.