Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About the authors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Dimensional analysis
- 3 Power series
- 4 Spherical and cylindrical coordinates
- 5 Gradient
- 6 Divergence of a vector field
- 7 Curl of a vector field
- 8 Theorem of Gauss
- 9 Theorem of Stokes
- 10 The Laplacian
- 11 Scale analysis
- 12 Linear algebra
- 13 Dirac delta function
- 14 Fourier analysis
- 15 Analytic functions
- 16 Complex integration
- 17 Green's functions: principles
- 18 Green's functions: examples
- 19 Normal modes
- 20 Potential field theory
- 21 Probability and statistics
- 22 Inverse problems
- 23 Perturbation theory
- 24 Asymptotic evaluation of integrals
- 25 Conservation laws
- 26 Cartesian tensors
- 27 Variational calculus
- 28 Epilogue, on power and knowledge
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2015
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- About the authors
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Dimensional analysis
- 3 Power series
- 4 Spherical and cylindrical coordinates
- 5 Gradient
- 6 Divergence of a vector field
- 7 Curl of a vector field
- 8 Theorem of Gauss
- 9 Theorem of Stokes
- 10 The Laplacian
- 11 Scale analysis
- 12 Linear algebra
- 13 Dirac delta function
- 14 Fourier analysis
- 15 Analytic functions
- 16 Complex integration
- 17 Green's functions: principles
- 18 Green's functions: examples
- 19 Normal modes
- 20 Potential field theory
- 21 Probability and statistics
- 22 Inverse problems
- 23 Perturbation theory
- 24 Asymptotic evaluation of integrals
- 25 Conservation laws
- 26 Cartesian tensors
- 27 Variational calculus
- 28 Epilogue, on power and knowledge
- References
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015