Green's functions in classical physics. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Tom Rother.
• Authors: Rother, Tom
• Contents: Prologue -- About the State of Physics -- Basic Structural Elements of Physics -- About Classical Physics and Quantum Mechanics -- Green's Functions of Classical Particles -- The Simple Harmonic Oscillator -- The Damped Harmonic Oscillator -- Elementary Motions of a Point Mass -- Lippmann-Schwinger Equation -- Two Systematic Ways to Derive Green's Functions -- Temporal Boundary Value Problem of the Harmonic Oscillator -- Two Simple Interaction Processes and Huygens' Principle -- Particle Scattering on a Rigid Sphere and Kepler Problem -- Green's Functions of Classical Fields -- Comments on the Field Concept -- The Elastic String -- Poisson Equations of Higher Dimensions -- Wave Equations of Higher Dimensions -- The Scalar Helmholtz Equation -- Scattering Problems -- Probability Experiments and Green's Functions in Classical Event Spaces -- Probability Experiments in a Two-Dimensional Event Space -- Probability Experiments in a Four-Dimensional Event Space -- Outlook or Something Like an End -- Classical Free Point Mass and Green's Function of the Diffusion Equation -- Schrödinger Equation of the Free Particle and Green's Function -- Classical Fokker-Planck Equation and Schrödinger Equation -- A Relation Between the Green's Functions of the Klein-Gordon- and Dirac Equation.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xi, 267 pages), illustrations (some color)
• Subjects: 530.15; Physics; Green's functions; Mathematical physics; Green's functions; Mathematical physics; Science -- Mathematical Physics; Technology & Engineering -- Mechanical; Mathematics -- Applied; Science -- Astronomy; Science -- Nuclear Physics; Mathematical physics; Mechanics of solids; Mathematical modelling; Solar system: the Sun & planets; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics & quantum field theory); Mechanics, applied; Planetary science; Quantum theory; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319524375; 3319524372
• Related ISBNs: 9783319524368; 3319524364
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 2, 2017).
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