Title: This solutions manual is only minimally helpful...
Product review: A good student solutions manual will go through all of the steps of a problem, and show how to solve it. This book skips steps and key ideas. It's not a very good solutions manual. The textbook which it is the solutions manual for is not a well done book, as the problem sets consist of problems which differ enough from the examples that they are frustrating even if you work through and understand all of the examples. The subject of the text is 'differential equations', not 'tricky advanced algebra'. Yet in one of the more difficult fundamental sections (section 1.6, substitution methods), several of the problems, including the first problem, require some not obvious algebraic manipulation to set up and solve. This is not reflected in any of the examples, and it is not shown in this solutions guide - they skip this step.
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