Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory
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| Principais autores: | , |
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| Formato: | Livre papier |
| Idioma: | Anglais |
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New York :
Dover Publications
1979.
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| coleção: | Dover books on physics and chemistry
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"This Dover edition published in 1979 is an unabridged republication of the 3rd ed. published in 1968" Réimpression de la troisième édition publiée en 1968 à Londres : Pitman and Sons |
| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
Sumário:
- 1. Prolegomena
- 2. Fermat's principle of least time
- 3. The principle of least action of Maupertuis
- 4. The development of this principle by Euler and Lagrange
- 5. The equations of Lagrange and Hamilton
- 6. Hamilton's principle and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation
- 7. Contact transformations and Hamilton's canonical equations
- 8. Electrodynamics in hamiltonian form
- 9. Résumé of variational principles in classical mechanics
- 10. Relation between variational principles and the other form of quantum theory
- 11. Variational principles and wave mechanics
- 12. The principles of Feynman and Schwinger in quantum mechanics
- 13. Variational principles in hydrodynamics
- 14. The significance of variational principles in natural philosophy