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An Introduction to Numerical Methods for the Physical Sciences

SYNTHESIS LECT ENG SCI TECH: INTRO NMRCL METH PHYS SCI

Physics

Mathematics & Science

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B2B & B2C

<P>There is only a very limited number of physical systems that can be exactly described in terms of simple analytic functions. There are, however, a vast range of problems which are amenable to a computational approach. This book provides a concise, self-contained introduction to the basic numerical and analytic techniques, which form the foundations of the algorithms commonly employed to give a quantitative description of systems of genuine physical interest. The methods developed are applied to representative problems from classical and quantum physics.</P>

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Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology.
Copyright Page.
Title Page.
Other Frontmatter.
Dedication.
Contents.
Preface.
1: Preliminaries.
2: Some Elementary Results.
3: The Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations.
4: Case Study: Damped and Driven Oscillations.
5: Numerical Linear Algebra.
6: Polynomial Approximations.
7: Sturm&#x2013;Liouville Theory.
8: Case Study: The Quantum Oscillator.
9: Variational Principles.
10: Case Study: The Ground State of Atoms.
Appendix A: Vector Spaces.
Appendix B: Analytic Solution to the Quantum Oscillator.
Appendix C: First-Order Perturbation Theory.
Bibliography.
Author&#x2019;s Biography.
Index.

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An Introduction to Numerical Methods for the Physical Sciences