Differential Analyzer (Noun)
Meaning
An analog computer designed to solve differential equations.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- The differential analyzer used a system of integrators and adders to solve complex differential equations in real-time.
- The professor carefully explained to the class how to use the differential analyzer to model the motion of a spring-mass system.
- The university's analog computer lab featured a large differential analyzer that had been built in the 1950s.
- Differential analyzers were widely used in the early days of space exploration to predict the trajectories of spacecraft.
- The researcher used the differential analyzer to simulate the behavior of a complex system governed by nonlinear differential equations.