Student Solutions Manual for Blanchard/Devaney/Hall's Differential Equations, 4th 4th Edition

This is actually one of the better solution manuals I used when I was taking math. It is light on explanation, but that is really what the book is for. The book was not the best written and did not always make for the easiest read, but between the book and class lecture, I could figure it out. This has the solutions to the odd-numbered problems from the book. One of the reviews complains that it does not have the solutions to the even problems, but every student solution manual has just the odd problems worked out. Only the instructor's solution manuals have all the problems worked out, and those are very hard to track down (obviously). Generally, if you can work the odd problems you can figure out how to do the even problems.What makes this better than some of the other solution manuals is that it has solutions for the vast majority, if not all, of the odd problems. I have used other student solution manuals that only have some of the odd problems worked out, and that is a pain. And, of the problems that I used this to check my work (my instructor assigned some problems from the book and made up others of his own), I did not notice any errors, so the editors did a good job. So, overall, it was a good investment.

Easy to follow. Just with it had the even answers too.

A straightforward solutions manual that provides the answers to the book's edition. I like the solution manual, but there is definitely a lacking in explanation. Every problem gives a pretty good step-by-step process for the answers, but when the denser material comes in, the problems assume you learned 100% of everything and don't explain much. Could definitely use more worded explanation and teaching of how to get the answers to the problems.

The book is about high level mathematics....it is not an easy course. At least for me, who took off a year of any math/physics. The book does well with working through problems; however, I wish it had more worked through problems. That being said, I recommend getting the solutions manual. The end of chapter problems are very helpful and go in order of increasing difficulty and 'ambiguity' so to speak. Some examples were posed in the form of theory and that is very convoluted.READ the math book. IT HELPS. I can't tell you how many in my class skipped straight to the end for homework problems and just didn't do well. Concepts are there. As I always say with any book, look for similarities and differences within the chapter. Ask why the publishers put a section together. It will help your mind group the math you encounter. The different ways of solving the ODE is presented and taken up a notch within each chapter. Similarities are within each chapter. Do the end of chapter problems but use common sense; some are the same mechanisms to get the answer, just different numbers. Other times, it may look similar but it will be a trick. If you know how to spot those, you should know how to solve them too!

Not sure if the author is aware of this, but the original textbook has all of the answers to the odd-numbered problems, this book is just a slight improvement on that in that it has somewhat more explanations to the answers to the odd-numbered problems. That is the problem, what about the even-numbered problems?! I paid $85 with the obviously bad assumption that this book was the solutions manual to all of the problems, not half. This is especially frustrating on the odd-numbered problems that are related to the previous even-numbered problem. So I have difficulty with the even-numbered problem, it will be difficult to answer the odd-numbered problem. Very dissapointed.

One of the better solutions manuals I've owned. Correct answers for the most part, enough detail to follow solutions from start to finish.

it helped me a lot

Could not have solved some problems without this unless you remember some very specific things from clac 2.