Variational Principles in Physics - Jean-Louis Basdevant

Variational Principles in Physics

Buch | Softcover
183 Seiten
2010 | Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-2279-3 (ISBN)
58,84 inkl. MwSt
Variational principles have proven to be surprisingly fertile. For example, Fermat used variational methods to demonstrate that light follows the fastest route from one point to another, an idea which came to be a cornerstone of geometrical optics. This book explains variational principles and charts their use throughout modern physics. It examines the analytical mechanics of Lagrange and Hamilton, the basic tools of any physicist. The book also offers simple but rich first impressions of Einstein’s General Relativity, Feynman’s Quantum Mechanics, and more that reveal amazing interconnections between various fields of physics.

A graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure, Jean-Louis Basdevant is Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics at the Ecole Polytechnique, and Director of Research for the CNRS. Specializing in the theoretical physics of elementary particles, quantum field theory and astrophysics, Prof. Basdevant works in the Leprince-Ringuet Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique.

Variational Principles.- The Analytical Mechanics of Lagrange.- Hamilton’s Canonical Formalism.- Lagrangian Field Theory.- Motion in a Curved Space.- Feynman’s Principle in Quantum Mechanics.

Zusatzinfo X, 183 p.
Verlagsort New York, NY
Sprache englisch
Maße 155 x 235 mm
Gewicht 486 g
Themenwelt Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Analysis
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Angewandte Mathematik
Mathematik / Informatik Mathematik Finanz- / Wirtschaftsmathematik
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Allgemeines / Lexika
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Mechanik
Technik Maschinenbau
ISBN-10 1-4419-2279-2 / 1441922792
ISBN-13 978-1-4419-2279-3 / 9781441922793
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