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What does a starting condition mean for a differential equation?

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The starting condition (s) or initial value (s) enable you to find the unknown constants in a solution of a differential equation and hence find the particular solution.


Unless you know or are given initial values you can only find a family of solutions, with constants that are unknown, this is known as the general solution.

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