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Original edition published in the United States of America. Published simultaneously in Canada. Philippines copyright 1 ibrary of Cangress Catalog Card Number: The inevitable nonuniformity of conditions present in different institutions necessitates considerable variety in purpase, general approach, and the level of instruction in any given discipline. This has naturally contributed to the proliferation of texts on almost any topic, and the subject of mathematical physics is no exception.
There is a aumber of texts in this ficld, and some of them are undoubtedly of outstanding quality. Nevertheless, many teachers often feel that none of the existing texts is properly suited, for one reason or another, for their particular courses.
More important, students sometimes complain that they have difficulties studying the subject from texts of unquestionable merit. This is not as surprising as it sounds: Some texts have an encyclopedic character, with the material arranged in a different order from the way it is usually taught; others become too much involved in complex mathematical analysis, preempting the available space from practical examples; still others cover a very wide variety of topics with utmost brevity, leaving the student to struggle with a number of difficult questions of theoretical nature.
True enough, a well-prepared and bright student should be able to find his way through most of such difficulties. A less-gifted student may, however, find it very difficult to grasp and absorb the multitude of new concepts strewn across an ad- vanced text. Under these circumstances, it seems desirable to give more stress to the peda- gogical side of a text to make it more readable to the student and more suitable for independent study.
Hopefully, the present work represents a step in this direction. First, the inductive approach is used in each chapter throughout the book. Fol- lowing the fundamentals of modern physics, the text is almost entirely devoted to linear problems, but the unifying concepts of linear space are fully developed rather late in the book after the student is exposed to a number of practical mathematical techniques.
Also, almost every chapter starts with an example or discussion of elementary nature, with subject matter that is probably familiar to the reader. The introduction of new concepts is made against a familiar background and is later extended to more sophisticated situations.
A typical example is Chapter 8, ec! In the process of learning, students inevitably pose a number of questions necessary to clarify the material under scrutiny. While most of these questions naturally belong to classroom discussion, it is certainly beneficial to attempt to anticipate some of them in a text. The Remarks and many footnotes are designed to contribute to this goal.
The author hopes they answer some questions in the mind of the student as well as suggest some new ones, stimulating an interest in further inquiry. A number of cross-references serves a similar purpose, inviting the reader to make multiple use of various sections of the book. The question of mathematical rigor is quite important in the subject treated here, although it is sometimes controversial. Consequently, he should be trained in this direction, and the texts should be written in this spirit.
On the other hand, it would be unwise to overload every student with mathematics for two main reasons: first, because of the limitations of time in the classroom and the space in a text, and second, because physicists are apt to change their mathematical postulates as soon as experimental physics lends support to such suggestions. The reader can find examples of the latter philosophy in Chapters 4 and 6 of the text.
Whether the author was able to follow these principles is left to the judgment of users of this book. Each chapter is supplied with its share of problems proportional to the time presumed to be allotted to its study.
The student may find some of the problems rather difficult since they require more comprehension of the material rather than sheer technique.
To balance this, a variety of hints and explanations are often supplied. Answers are not given because many problems contain the answer in their formulation; the remaining ones may be used to test the ability of the student for independent work.
For many of the methods of instruction of mathematical physics presented in this book, the author is indebted to his own tcachcrs at the University of British Columbia and McGill University. The encouragement of his colleagues and students at St.
Also, the author wishes to thank Mrs. Palo Alto, Calif. Vectors in Cartesian Coordinate Systems. Changes of Axes. Rotation Matrices Repeated Rotations. Matrix Multiplication. Skew Cartesian Systems. Basic Algebra and Geometry of Complex Numbers. De Moivre Formula and the Calculation of Roots. Complex Functions. Cauchy Theorem Other Integral Theorems. Zeros and Singularities. The Residue Theorem and its Applications.
Conformal Mapping by Analytic Functions. Variation of Constants. Power Scrics Suiuiivns. The Frobenius Method. Applications of Fourier Series. The Mellin Inversion Integral. Applications of Laplace Transforms. Correspondence of Functions and Distributions. Properties of Distributions.
Sequences and Series of Distributions Distributions in N dimensions. Fourier Integral Theorem. Fourier Transforms of Distributions. Fourier Sine and Cosine Transforms. Applications of Fourier Transforms. The Principle of Causality. Propagation of Sound. Spherical Bessel Functions.
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