Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering

1 This page intentionally left blankMathematical Methods for Physics and EngineeringThe third edition of this highly acclaimed undergraduate textbook is suitablefor teaching all the mathematics ever likely to be needed for an undergraduatecourse in any of the physical sciences. As well as lucid descriptions of all thetopics covered and many worked examples, it contains more than 800 number of additional topics have been included and the text has undergonesignificant reorganisation in some areas. New stand-alone chapters: give a systematic account of the special functions of physical science cover an extended range of practical applications of complex variables includingWKB Methods and saddle-point integration techniques provide an introduction to quantum tabulations, of relevance in statistics and numerical integration, havebeen added.

2 In this edition, all 400 odd-numbered exercises are provided withcomplete worked solutions in a separate manual, available to both students andtheir teachers; these are in addition to the hints and outline answers given inthe main text. The even-numbered exercises have no hints, answers or workedsolutions and can be used for unaided homework; full solutions to them areavailable to instructors on a password-protected Rileyread mathematics at the University of Cambridge and proceededto a there in theoretical and experimental nuclear Physics . He became aresearch associate in elementary particle Physics at Brookhaven, and then, havingtaken up a lectureship at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, continued thisresearch at the Rutherford Laboratory and Stanford; in particular he was involvedin the experimental discovery of a number of the early baryonic resonances.

3 Aswell as having been Senior Tutor at Clare College, where he has taught physicsand mathematics for over 40 years, he has served on many committees concernedwith the teaching and examining of these subjects at all levels of tertiary andundergraduate education. He is also one of the authors of200 Puzzling Hobsonread natural sciences at the University of Cambridge, spe-cialising in theoretical Physics , and remained at the Cavendish Laboratory tocomplete a in the Physics of star-formation. As a research fellow at TrinityHall, Cambridge and subsequently an advanced fellow of the Particle Physicsand Astronomy Research Council, he developed an interest in cosmology, andin particular in the study of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave was involved in the first detection of these fluctuations using a ground-basedinterferometer.

4 He is currently a University Reader at the Cavendish Laboratory,his research interests include both theoretical and observational aspects of cos-mology, and he is the principal author ofGeneral Relativity: An Introduction forPhysicists. He is also a Director of Studies in Natural Sciences at Trinity Hall andenjoys an active role in the teaching of undergraduate Physics and Benceobtained both his undergraduate degree in Natural Sciencesand his in Astrophysics from the University of Cambridge. He then becamea Research Associate with a special interest in star-formation processes and thestructure of star-forming regions.

5 In particular, his research concentrated on thephysics of jets and outflows from young stars. He has had considerable experi-ence of teaching mathematics and Physics to undergraduate and Methodsfor Physics and EngineeringThird RILEY, HOBSON and BENCE cambridge university pressCambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, S o PauloCambridge University PressThe Edinburgh Building, Cambridgecb2 2ru,UKFirst published in print formatisbn-13978-0-521-86153-3isbn-13978 -0-521-67971-8isbn-13978-0-511-16842-0 K. F. Riley, M. P. Hobson and S. J. Bence 20062006 publication is in copyright.

6 Subject to statutory exception and to the provision ofrelevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take placewithout the written permission of Cambridge University University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy ofurlsfor external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does notguarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New (EBL)eBook (EBL)hardbackContentsPreface to the third editionpagexxPreface to the second editionxxiiiPreface to the first editionxxv1 Preliminary functions and equations1 Polynomial equations; factorisation; properties of identities10 Single angle; compound angles; double- and half-angle fractions18 Complications and special of binomial particular Methods of proof30 Proof by induction; proof by contradiction; necessary and sufficient and answers392 Preliminary from first principles; products; the chain rule; quotients;implicit differentiation; logarithmic differentiation; Leibnitz theorem.

7 Specialpoints of a function; curvature; theorems of from first principles; the inverse of differentiation; by inspec-tion; sinusoidal functions; logarithmic integration; using partial fractions;substitution method; integration by parts; reduction formulae; infinite andimproper integrals; plane polar coordinates; integral inequalities; applicationsof and answers813 Complex numbers and hyperbolic need for complex of complex numbers85 Addition and subtraction; modulus and argument; multiplication; complexconjugate; representation of complex numbers92 Multiplication and division in polar Moivre s theorem95trigonometric identities; finding thenth roots of unity; solving logarithms and complex to differentiation and functions102 Definitions; hyperbolic trigonometric analogies; identities of hyperbolicfunctions; solving hyperbolic equations; inverses of hyperbolic functions;calculus of hyperbolic and answers1134 Series and of series116 Arithmetic series; geometric series; arithmetico-geometric series; the differencemethod; series involving natural numbers.

8 Transformation of of infinite series124 Absolute and conditional convergence; series containing only real positiveterms; alternating series with series131 Convergence of power series; operations with power series136 Taylor s theorem; approximation errors; standard Maclaurin of and answers149viCONTENTS5 Partial of the partial total differential and total and inexact theorems of partial chain of s theorem for many-variable values of many-variable values under Thermodynamic Differentiation of Hints and answers1856 Multiple of multiple integrals191 Areas and volumes; masses, centres of mass and centroids; Pappus theorems;moments of inertia; mean values of of variables in multiple integrals199 Change of variables in double integrals; evaluation of the integralI= e x2dx.

9 Change of variables in triple integrals; general properties and answers2117 Vector and and subtraction of by a vectors and of a of vectors219 Scalar product; vector product; scalar triple product; vector triple of lines, planes and vectors to find distances229 Point to line; point to plane; line to line; line to Hints and answers2408 Matrices and vector spaces242 Basis vectors; inner product; some useful matrix algebra250 Matrix addition; multiplication by a scalar; matrix of transpose of a complex and Hermitian conjugates of a trace of a determinant of a matrix259 Properties of The inverse of a The rank of a Special types of square matrix268 Diagonal; triangular; symmetric andantisymmetric; orthogonal; Hermitianand anti-Hermitian; unitary; Eigenvectors and eigenvalues272Of a normal matrix; of Hermitian and anti-Hermitian matrices; of a unitarymatrix.

10 Of a general square Determination of eigenvalues and eigenvectors280 Degenerate Change of basis and similarity Diagonalisation of Quadratic and Hermitian forms288 Stationary properties of the eigenvectors; quadratic Simultaneous linear equations292 Range; null space;Nsimultaneous linear equations inNunknowns; singularvalue Hints and answers3149 Normal oscillatory and normal Ritz and answers33210 Vector Differentiation of vectors334 Composite vector expressions; differential of a Integration of Space Vector functions of several Scalar and vector Vector operators347 Gradient of a scalar field; divergence of a vector field; curl of a vector Vector operator formulae354 Vector operators acting on sums and products; combinations of grad, div Cylindrical and spherical polar General curvilinear Hints and answers37511 Line, surface and volume Line integrals377 Evaluating line integrals; physical examples.