An Introduction to Numerical Methods for the Physical Sciences

Whelan, Colm T.

An Introduction to Numerical Methods for the Physical Sciences by Colm T. Whelan - 1st edition 2020 - 1 recurso en línea (XVII, 148 páginas) - Synthesis Lectures on Engineering Science and Technology 2690-0327 .

Preface -- Preliminaries -- Some Elementary Results -- The Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations -- Case Study: Damped and Driven Oscillations -- Numerical Linear Algebra -- Polynomial Approximations -- Sturm--Liouville Theory -- Case Study: The Quantum Oscillator -- Variational Principles -- Case Study: The Ground State of Atoms -- Bibliography -- Author's Biography -- Index .

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.

9783031020858

10.1007/978-3-031-02085-8 doi


Sucesiones (Matemáticas)

QA292 / 2020 EB