How do I know which method to use?
By classifying the problem first. For a differential equation, is it linear, what order, are the coefficients constant, is it homogeneous. Each answer narrows the method. Students who jump to solving before classifying are the ones who find this subject unpredictable.
This comes up on Engineering Mathematics Support, where it is answered in the context of the work itself.
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