TY - BOOK ID - 122439032 TI - An Introduction to Numerical Methods for the Physical Sciences PY - 2020 SN - 3031020855 3031001575 3031009576 PB - Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Engineering design. KW - Materials. KW - Professional education. KW - Vocational education. KW - Engineering Design. KW - Materials Engineering. KW - Professional and Vocational Education. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:122439032 AB - There is only a very limited number of physical systems that can be exactly described in terms of simple analytic functions. There are, however, a vast range of problems which are amenable to a computational approach. This book provides a concise, self-contained introduction to the basic numerical and analytic techniques, which form the foundations of the algorithms commonly employed to give a quantitative description of systems of genuine physical interest. The methods developed are applied to representative problems from classical and quantum physics. ER -