Ordinary Differential Equations through Dimensional Analysis

Abstract

In in this paper we show how using D.A. it is found a simple change of variables (c.v.) that brings us to obtain differential equations simpler than the original one. In a pedagogical way (at least we try to do that) and in order to make see that each c.v. corresponds to an invariant solution (induced by a symmetry) or a particular solution, we compare (with all the tedious details, i.e. calculations) the proposed method with the Lie method. The method is checked even in ODEs that do not admit symmetries.