Joel Franklin

Mathematical Methods for Oscillations and Waves

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Anchored in simple physics problems, the author provides a focused introduction to mathematical methods in a structured manner.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 197mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 747g
• ISBN-13: 9781108488228
• ISBN-10: 1108488226
• Artikelnr.: 57792760

Autorenporträt

Joel Franklin is a professor in the Physics Department of Reed College, Oregon. His research focuses on mathematical and computational methods with applications to classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics, general relativity and modifications to general relativity He is also the author of Advanced Mechanics and General Relativity (Cambridge, 2010), Computational Methods for Physics (Cambridge, 2013), and Classical Field Theory (Cambridge, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Harmonic oscillator
2. Damped harmonic oscillator
3. Coupled oscillators
4. The wave equation
5. Integration
6. Waves in three dimensions
7. Other wave equations
8. Numerical methods
Appendix A. Solving ODE's: a roadmap
Appendix B. Vector calculus: curvilinear coordinates
References
Index.