A Mathematica Primer for Physicists

A Mathematica Primer for Physicists

by Jim Napolitano
A Mathematica Primer for Physicists

A Mathematica Primer for Physicists

by Jim Napolitano

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Overview

"…an excellent text for either a short course or self-study… Professor Napolitano has figured out what students really need, and found a way to deliver it… I have found everything he writes to be worthy of my serious attention…"
—Peter D. Persans, Professor of Physics and Director, Center for Integrated Electronics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Learn how to use Mathematica quickly for basic problems in physics. The author introduces all the key techniques and then shows how they’re applied using common examples. Chapters cover elementary mathematics concepts, differential and integral calculus, differential equations, vectors and matrices, data analysis, random number generation, animation, and visualization.

  • Written in an appealing, conversational style
  • Presents important concepts within the framework of Mathematics
  • Gives examples from frequently encountered physics problems
  • Explains problem-solving in a step-by-step fashion

Jim Napolitano is professor and chair in the Department of Physics at Temple University. He is the author of other textbooks, including co-author with Alistair Rae of Quantum Mechanics, Sixth Edition, also published by Taylor & Francis / CRC Press.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781351979207
Publisher: CRC Press
Publication date: 03/22/2018
Series: Textbook Series in Physical Sciences
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 214
File size: 10 MB

About the Author

Jim Napolitano is Professor of Physics at Temple University. His undergraduate degree is in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and he earned his PhD in Physics at Stanford University. For the first ten years of his career, he was on the staffs at Argonne National Laboratory and Jefferson Laboratory, but has been a Physics faculty member at Rensselaer and Temple for more than 25 years.

Professor Napolitano has taught courses at all level, from introductory physics, to intermediate and upper level theoretical and experimental physics, and graduate quantum mechanics. His research field is Experimental Nuclear Physics, and has published many papers in the Physical Review, Physical Review Letters, and other journals. In 2016 he shared the Fundamental Physics Breakthrough Prize with his collaborators on the Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiment. He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in the Division of Nuclear Physics in 2011, is a member of the Physical Review C Editorial Board, and serves on or chairs several review panels in the field of Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Solving Algebraic Equations 3. Derivatives, Integrals, and Series 4. Differential Equations: Analytic Solutions 5. Differential Equations: Numerical Solutions 6. Vectors and Matrices 7. Basic Data Analysis 8. Fitting Data to Models 9. Numerical Manipulations 10. Random Numbers 11. Animation 12. Advanced Plotting and Visualization Appendix A. Additional exercises Appendix B. Shorthands

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