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EquationTrekker for system of two 1st order ODEs

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  • Subject: [mg109381] EquationTrekker for system of two 1st order ODEs
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 04:02:01 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
  • Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu

Is it possible to use the EquationTrekker package to plot solutions of a 
system of two first-order ODEs?

With Mathematica 7.0.1, I try:

   <<EquationTrekker`
   EquationTrekker[
       {x'[t] == 2 x[t] + 3 y[t], y'[t] == x[t] - y[t]},
       {x, y}, {t, 0, 20},
       PlotRange -> {{-5, 5}, {-5, 5}}]

Up pops the expected EquationTrekker graphics window. And if I then 
right-click somewhere in the xy-plane there, sometimes nothing happens 
and sometimes I get a point.  (Except for the origin, which is an 
equilibrium point, all other trajectories for that system are either 
half-lines or hyperbolic arcs.)

Note that the output from evaluating "?EquationTrekker" includes the 
following:

   "EquationTrekker[eqns,{x,y},{t,Subscript[t, min],Subscript[t, max]}] 
opens a graphical interface for specifying initial conditions and 
plotting the resulting numerical solution to the system of two first 
order ordinary differential equations eqns for the functions x and y"


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