Introduction to mathematical methods of physics

Book · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1979

OSTI ID:6672649

Jones, L M

This book covers the material for a course in mathematical physics at the advanced undergraduate level. It focuses on the solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations encountered in physics and their applications to boundary-value problems and on applications of complex variables in physics. Chapter titles are as follows: vectors and matrices, abstract formalism of vector spaces, ordinary differential equations, function spaces and expansions in orthogonal sets, infinite series, evaluation of integrals, some properties of functions of a complex variable, uses of complex variable theory I: evaluation of integrals, uses of complex variable theory II: transform techniques and comformal mapping, uses of complex variable theory III: special topics (dispersion relations, contour integrals, WKB connection formulas), integral equations, and partial differential equations. 109 figures, 2 tables. (RWR)

• OSTI ID: 6672649
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

658000* -- Mathematical Physics-- (-1987)
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990200 -- Mathematics & Computers
ANALYTICAL SOLUTION
BOUNDARY-VALUE PROBLEMS
CONFORMAL MAPPING
DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
DISPERSION RELATIONS
EQUATIONS
INTEGRAL EQUATIONS
INTEGRALS
MAPPING
MATHEMATICAL SPACE
MATHEMATICS
MATRICES
SERIES EXPANSION
SPACE
TENSORS
TOPOLOGICAL MAPPING
TRANSFORMATIONS
VECTORS
WKB APPROXIMATION