Synopses & Reviews
This new adaptation of Arfken and Weber's bestselling Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Fifth Edition, is the most modern collection of mathematical principles for solving physics problems. Additional explanations and examples provide models and context for methods applicable to a wide range of physics theories and applications.
Features:
· Many detailed, worked-out examples illustrate how to use and apply mathematical techniques to solve physics problems
· Frequent and thorough explanations help readers understand, recall, and apply the theory
· Introductions and review material provide context and emphasis on key ideas
· Many routine exercises reinforce basic, foundational concepts and computations
"True to the title, this new text achieves a comprehensive coverage of the "essential" topics in mathematical physics at the undergraduate level. This new version is filled with enlightening examples, which is the key to undergraduate teaching . More importantly, many examples are real problems from various fields of physics. Illustration of the mathematical principles behind the solution of these problems further enhances the connection between this course and other courses in a physics curriculum. "
David Hwang, University of California at Davis
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"True to the title, this new text achieves a comprehensive coverage of the 'essential' topics in mathematical physics at the undergraduate level. This new version is filled with enlightening examples, which is the key to undergraduate teaching. More importantly, many examples are real problems from various fields of physics." David Hwang, University of California at Davis
Review
"The book contains many worked out problems some of which are solved in more than one way to accommodate different learning needs and styles of different students. Particularly, the chapters on vector analysis, determinant and matrices, Fourier series, and probability are extremely well written and will be an instant success with the students." Amit Chakrabati, Kansas State University
Synopsis
This new adaptation of Arfken and Weber's bestselling
Mathematical Methods for Physicists, Fifth Edition, is the most comprehensive, modern, and accessible text for using mathematics to solve physics problems. Additional explanations and examples make it student-friendly and more adaptable to a course syllabus.
Key Features:
- This is a more accessible version of Arfken/Weber's blockbuster bestselling reference
- Many more detailed, worked-out examples illustrate how to use and apply mathematical techniques to solve physics problems
- More frequent and thorough explanations help readers understand, recall, and apply the theory
- New introductions and review material provide context and extra support for key ideas
- Many more routine problems reinforce basic, foundational concepts and computations
Synopsis
This new adaptation of the bestselling book is the most comprehensive, modern, and accessible text for using mathematics to solve physics problems. Additional explanations and examples make it student-friendly and more adaptable to a course syllabus.
Synopsis
A more accessible, student-level adaptation of Arken & Weber's classic text, Mathematical Methods for Physicists!
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Vector Analysis
2. Vector Analysis in Curved Coordinated and Tensors
3. Determinants and Matrices
4. Group Theory
5. Infinite Series
6. Functions of a Complex Variable I
7. Functions of a Complex Variable II
8. Differential Equations
9. Sturm-Liouville Theory - Orthogonal Functions
10. The Gamma Function (Factorial Function)
11. Legendre Polynomials
12. Bessell Functions
13. Hermite and Laguerre Polynomials
14. Fourier Series
15. Integral Transforms
16. Partial Differential Equations
17. Probability
18. Calculus of Variations
19. Non-Linear Methods and Chaos