Methods of Mathematical Physics
3rd Edition
Part of Cambridge Mathematical Library
- Authors:
- Harold Jeffreys, University of Cambridge and St John's College, Cambridge
- Bertha Jeffreys, Girton College, Cambridge
- Date Published: January 2000
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521664028
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This well-known text and reference contains an account of those mathematical methods that have applications in at least two branches of physics. The authors give examples of the practical use of the methods taken from a wide range of physics, including dynamics, hydrodynamics, elasticity, electromagnetism, heat conduction, wave motion and quantum theory. They pay particular attention to the conditions under which theorems hold. Helpful exercises accompany each chapter.
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- Comprehensive coverage of those parts of mathematics most needed in physics
- Includes examples of the practical uses of methods discussed in the text
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- Edition: 3rd Edition
- Date Published: January 2000
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521664028
- length: 730 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 153 x 44 mm
- weight: 1.138kg
- contains: 91 b/w illus. 252 exercises
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The real variable
2. Scalars and vectors
3. Tensors
4. Matrices
5. Multiple integrals
6. Potential theory
7. Operational methods
8. Physical applications of the operational method
9. Numerical methods
10. Calculus of variations
11. Functions of a complex variable
12. Contour integration and Bromwich's integral
13. Contour integration
14. Fourier's theorem
15. The factorial and related functions
16. Solution of linear differential equations of the second order
17. Asymptotic expansions
18. The equations of potential, waves and heat conduction
19. Waves in one dimension and waves with spherical symmetry
20. Conduction of heat in one and three dimensions
21. Bessel functions
22. Applications of Bessel functions
23. The confluent hypergeometric function
24. Legendre functions and associated functions
25. Elliptic functions
Notes
Appendix on notation
Index.
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