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variational principles, methods, and applications in elementary physics

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An edition of Perfect form (1997)

Perfect form

variational principles, methods, and applications in elementary physics

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What does the path taken by a ray of light share with the trajectory of a thrown baseball and the curve of a wheat stalk bending in the breeze? Each is the subject of a different study yet all are optimal shapes; light rays minimize travel time while a thrown baseball minimizes action.

All natural curves and shapes, and many artificial ones, manifest such "perfect form" because physical principles can be expressed as a statement requiring some important physical quantity to be mathematically maximum, minimum, or stationary.

Perfect Form introduces the basic "variational" principles of classical physics (least time, least potential energy, least action, and Hamilton's principle), develops the mathematical language most suited to their application (the calculus of variations), and presents applications from the physics usually encountered in introductory course sequences.

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Princeton University Press
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English
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117

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Mathematical physics, Calculus of variations, Mathematical analysis, problems, exercises, etc.
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Cover of: Perfect form
Perfect form: variational principles, methods, and applications in elementary physics
1997, Princeton University Press
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Includes index.

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530.1/5564
Library of Congress
QC20.7.C3 L46 1997, QC20.7.C3L46 1997

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xi, 117 p. :
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117

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35033513
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545957
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4316879
2903028

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