Green's Functions in Classical Physics (Paperback, 1st ed. 2017)

This book presents the Green's function formalism in a basic way and demonstrates its usefulness for applications to several well-known problems in classical physics which are usually solved not by this formalism but other approaches. The book bridges the gap between applications of the Green's function formalism in quantum physics and classical physics. This book is written as an introduction for graduate students and researchers who want to become more familiar with the Green's function formalism. In 1828 George Green has published an essay that was unfortunately sunken into oblivion shortly after its publication. It was rediscovered only after several years by the later Lord Kelvin. But since this time, using Green's functions for solving partial differential equations in physics has become an important mathematical tool. While the conceptual and epistemological importance of these functions were essentially discovered and discussed in modern physics - especially in quantum field theory and quantum statistics - these aspects are rarely touched in classical physics. In doing it, this book provides an interesting and sometimes new point of view on several aspects and problems in classical physics, like the Kepler motion or the description of certain classical probability experiments in finite event spaces. A short outlook on quantum mechanical problems concludes this book.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Lecture Notes in Physics, 938
Release date:	May 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Tom Rother
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	267
Edition:	1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-52436-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Applied mathematics > Mathematical modelling Books > Science & Mathematics > Astronomy, space & time > Solar system > General Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > Quantum physics (quantum mechanics) > General Books > Professional & Technical > Mechanical engineering & materials > Materials science > Mechanics of solids > General
LSN:	3-319-52436-4
Barcode:	9783319524368

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