Calculus of variations (Record no. 3138)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780486630694
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Transcribing agency DOnation by CAM (Prof. A S Vasudeva Murthy)
Original cataloging agency ICTS-TIFR
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number QA315
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Robert Weinstoch
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Calculus of variations
Remainder of title : with applications to physics and engineering
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York:
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Dover Publication,
Date of publication, distribution, etc. [c1974]
300 ## - Physical Description
Pages: 326 p.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Chapter 1. Introduction<br/>Chapter 2. Background Preliminaries<br/>Chapter 3. Introductory Problems<br/>Chapter 4. Isoperimetric Problems<br/>Chapter 5. Geometrical Optics: Fermat's Principle<br/>Chapter 6. Dynamics of Particles<br/>Chapter 7. Two Independent Variables: The Vibrating String<br/>Chapter 8. The Sturm-Liouville Eigenvalue-Eigenfunction Problem<br/>Chapter 9. Several Independent Variables: The Vibrating Membrane<br/>Chapter 10. Theory of Elasticity<br/>Chapter 11. Quantum Mechanics<br/>Chapter 12. Electrostatics
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This book by Robert Weinstock was written to fill the need for a basic introduction to the calculus of variations. Simply and easily written, with an emphasis on the applications of this calculus, it has long been a standard reference of physicists, engineers, and applied mathematicians.The author begins slowly, introducing the reader to the calculus of variations, and supplying lists of essential formulae and derivations. Later chapters cover isoperimetric problems, geometrical optics, Fermat's principle, dynamics of particles, the Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue-eigenfunction problem, the theory of elasticity, quantum mechanics, and electrostatics. Each chapter ends with a series of exercises which should prove very useful in determining whether the material in that chapter has been thoroughly grasped.The clarity of exposition makes this book easily accessible to anyone who has mastered first-year calculus with some exposure to ordinary differential equations. Physicists and engineers who find variational methods evasive at times will find this book particularly helpful."I regard this as a very useful book which I shall refer to frequently in the future." J. L. Synge, Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society.---Summary provided by publisher
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        Mathematics ICTS Rack No 6 06/07/2022 Gratis QA315 02510 Book