FIRST-ORDER ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
♦ 1st-order ODEs correspond to families of curves in x, y plane ⇒ geometric interpretation of solutions ♦ Equations of higher order may be reduceable to first-order problems in special cases — e.g. when y or x variables are missing from 2nd order equations
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