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A uniform description of an oscillator's resonant transition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

P. B. Chapman
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009.
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Abstract

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A uniform approximation to the description of a linear oscillator's slow resonant transition is calculated. If the time scale of the transition is ɛ−1, the approximation contains explicitly the 0(1) and 0(ɛ½) terms, and fixes a uniform 0(ɛ) error bound.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1990

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