An Introduction to Numerical Methods for the Physical Sciences
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An Introduction to Numerical Methods for the Physical Sciences

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
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An Introduction to Numerical Methods for the Physical Sciences

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There is only a very limited number of physical systems that can be exactly described in terms of simple analytic functions. There are, however, a vast range of problems which are amenable to a computational approach. This book provides a concise, self-contained introduction to the basic numerical and analytic techniques, which form the foundations of the algorithms commonly employed to give a quantitative description of systems of genuine physical interest. The methods developed are applied to representative problems from classical and quantum physics.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Preface
  7. Preliminaries
  8. Some Elementary Results
  9. The Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations
  10. Case Study: Damped and Driven Oscillations
  11. Numerical Linear Algebra
  12. Polynomial Approximations
  13. Sturm–Liouville Theory
  14. Case Study: The Quantum Oscillator
  15. Variational Principles
  16. Case Study: The Ground State of Atoms
  17. Vector Spaces
  18. Bibliography
  19. Author's Biography
  20. Index