ABSTRACT
The equations in the problems we have investigated so far are all linear and the terms containing the unknown function and its derivatives have constant coefficients. The only exception is the type of problem where we need to make use of polar coordinates, but in such problems the polar radius is present in some of the coefficients in a very specific way, which does not disturb the solution scheme. Below we discuss a procedure for solving first-order linear PDEs with more general variable coefficients, and first-order nonlinear PDEs of a particular form. We also re-examine the one-dimensional wave equation from the perspective of this new technique.
Consider the IVP
