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Essential Mathematics for the Physical Sciences, Volume 1: Homogenous Boundary Value Problems, Fourier Methods, and Special Functions

Essential Mathematics for the Physical Sciences, Volume 1: Homogenous Boundary Value Problems, Fourier Methods, and Special Functions

Borden, Brett
Luscombe, James

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Series: Iop Concise Physics

General MathematicsPhysics

ISBN10: 1681744848
ISBN13: 9781681744841
Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
Published: Oct 31 2017
Pages: 191
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.41 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

Physics is expressed in the language of mathematics; it is deeply ingrained in how physics is taught and how it's practiced. A study of the mathematics used in science is thus asound intellectual investment for training as scientists and engineers. This first volume of two is centered on methods of solving partial differential equations (PDEs) and the special functions introduced. Solving PDEs can't be done, however, outside of the context in which they apply to physical systems. The solutions to PDEs must conform to boundary conditions, a set of additional constraints in space or time to be satisfied at the boundaries of the system, that small part of the universe under study. The first volume is devoted to homogeneous boundary-value problems (BVPs), homogeneous implying a system lacking a forcing function, or source function. The second volume takes up (in addition to other topics) inhomogeneous problems where, in addition to the intrinsic PDE governing a physical field, source functions are an essential part of the system.

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