Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Harmonic Oscillator
- 2 Damped Harmonic Oscillator
- 3 Coupled Oscillators
- 4 The Wave Equation
- 5 Integration
- 6 Waves in Three Dimensions
- 7 Other Wave Equations
- 8 Numerical Methods
- Appendix A Solving ODEs: A Roadmap
- Appendix B Vector Calculus: Curvilinear Coordinates
- References
- Index
8 - Numerical Methods
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2020
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Harmonic Oscillator
- 2 Damped Harmonic Oscillator
- 3 Coupled Oscillators
- 4 The Wave Equation
- 5 Integration
- 6 Waves in Three Dimensions
- 7 Other Wave Equations
- 8 Numerical Methods
- Appendix A Solving ODEs: A Roadmap
- Appendix B Vector Calculus: Curvilinear Coordinates
- References
- Index
Summary
This chapter can be used as a six week “lab" component to a mathematical methods course, one section each week.The chapter is relatively self-contained, and consists of numerical methods that complement the analytic solutions found in the rest of the book.There are methods for solving ODE problems (both in initial and boundary value form) approximating integrals, and finding roots.There is also a discussion of the eigenvalue problem in the context of approximate solutions in quantum mechanics and a section on the discrete Fourier transform.
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- Mathematical Methods for Oscillations and Waves , pp. 207 - 233Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020