This document provides an introduction to differential equations. It defines differential equations as equations containing an unknown function and its derivatives. It discusses ordinary differential equations which contain one independent variable and partial differential equations which can contain multiple independent variables. The order of a differential equation refers to the order of the highest derivative term. The degree of a differential equation is the power of the highest order derivative term. Linear differential equations have dependent variables and derivatives that are of degree one and have coefficients that do not depend on the dependent variable. Several examples of different types of differential equations are provided.