Explorations in Mathematical Physics : The Concepts Behind an Elegant Language
Have you ever wondered why the language of modern physics centres on geometry? Or how quantum operators and Dirac brackets work? What a convolution really is? What tensors are all about? Or what field theory and lagrangians are, and why gravity is described as curvature? This book takes you on a tou...
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| Natura: | Livre numérique |
| Lingua: | Anglais |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York
2006.
Cham : Springer Nature |
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| Edition sous un autre format: | • Explorations in Mathematical Physics, Texte imprimé, 9780387309439 • Explorations in Mathematical Physics, Texte imprimé, 9780387511603 • Explorations in Mathematical Physics, Texte imprimé, 9781441921680 |
Sommario:
- The Language of Physics
- A Trip Down Linear Lane
- The Natural Language of Random Processes
- A Roundabout Route to Geometric Algebra
- Special Relativity and the Lorentz Transform
- Four-Vectors and the Road to Tensors
- Accelerated Frames: Onward to the Principle of Covariance
- The Elegance and Power of Tensor Notation
- Curvature and Differential Geometry
- Variational Calculus and Field Theory
- The Green Function Approach to Solving Field Equations
- Airliners, Black Holes, and Cosmology: The ABC of General Relativity.