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ISBN: 9780691026633

ID: 9780691026633

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. Books, [PU: Princeton University Press]

ISBN: 9780691026633

Paperback, [PU: Princeton University Press], Introduces the basic 'variational' principles of classical physics, develops the mathematical language suited to their application, and presents applications from the physics encountered in introductory course sequences. This book is designed to supplement classical mechanics texts and to present variational principles and methods to students., Classical Mechanics

ISBN: 9780691026633

ID: 9780691026633

Perfect Form: Variational Principles, Methods, and Applications in Elementary Physics Perfect-Form-Variational-Principles-Methods-and-Applications-in-Elementary-Physics~~Don-S-Lemons Science>Physics>Physics Paperback, Princeton University Press

1997, ISBN: 0691026637

ID: A1001381

Kartoniert / Broschiert SCIENCE / Physics / General, mit Schutzumschlag neu, [PU:Princeton University Press]

1997, ISBN: 9780691026633

ID: 623909

Variational Principles, Methods, and Applications in Elementary Physics, Softcover, Buch, [PU: Princeton University Press]