INDEX 409

Vandermonde determinant, 110variation of constants formula, 182variational inequality, 287vector

angular velocity, 68vector space

axioms, 38, 189basis, 63dimension, 64examples, 189

vector space axioms, 32vectors, 38volume

parallelepiped, 288

well ordered, 20Wronskian, 108, 182, 252Wronskian alternative, 182