Carbon-14, 36
Cart with flywheel, 327
Catenary problem, 44
Cauchy-Schwarz inequality, 251
Center:
Central conic, 208
Characteristic value, see Eigenvalue
Clairaut equation, 71
Clarinet reed, 551
Clarke, Arthur (1917–2008), 17
Closed trajectory, 509
Clepsydra, 43
Coddington, E. A. (1920–1991), 633
Coefficient matrix, 147
Coexistence of species, 532
Cofactor, 190
Column (of a matrix), 147
Column rank, 244
and row rank, 247
Column space, 244
basis for, 246
Comet orbit, 467
Compartmental analysis, 388
Competition situation, 80
Complementary function, 287
Complete eigenvalue, 437
Complete independence of eigenvectors, 353
Complete set of eigenvectors, 437
Complex-valued function, real and imaginary parts, 296
Compound interest, 36
Computational efficiency, 200
Constant acceleration, 12
Continuous dependence of solutions, 665
Convergence:
Convolution (of functions), 587
Convolution property (of transforms), 588
Cooperation of species, 534
Coordinate plane, 214
space, 211
Corresponding eigenvalue, 339
Criterion for diagonalizability, 349
Criterion for exactness, 66
Critical point (of system), 503
Cumulative error, 110
Curvature, 71
Curve fitting, 203
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