Calculus of variations : with applications to physics and engineering /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Weinstock, Robert, 1919-
Format: Book
Published: New York, N.Y. : Mc-Graw-Hill, 1952
Series:International series in pure and applied mathematics
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background preliminaries
  • 3. Introductory problems
  • 4. Isoperimetric problems
  • 5. Geometrical optics: Fermats principle
  • 6. Dynamics of particles
  • 7. Two independent variables: the vibrating string
  • 8. The Sturm-Llouville eigenvalue-eigenfunction problem
  • 9. Several independent variables: the vibrating membrane
  • 10. Theory of elasticity
  • 11. Quantum mechanics
  • 12. Electrostatics.