I loved my differential equation course, and it was a community college course I took senior year of high school. One of the chapters in the book was using diff

I loved my differential equation course, and it was a community college course I took senior year of high school. One of the chapters in the book was using diff eqs to solve physical systems and it was an eye opening experience. For a hobby project, I'm writing a video game that requires some unusual behaviors so an off-the-shelf physics library won't cut it, I have to roll my own and most of the math I'm using is directly from that course. One additional note, the author mentions not being able to motivate the Laplace transform. The Laplace transform is really critical when designing robotic control systems. It's to the point that in diagrams, one usually draws "1/s" instead of an integral sign.