Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt : : And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics / / Paul J. Nahin.
What does quilting have to do with electric circuit theory? The answer is just one of the fascinating ways that best-selling popular math writer Paul Nahin illustrates the deep interplay of math and physics in the world around us in his latest book of challenging mathematical puzzles, Mrs. Perkins...
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Nahin, Paul J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt : And Other Intriguing Stories of Mathematical Physics / Paul J. Nahin. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2009] ©2010 1 online resource (424 p.) : 84 line illus. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- For the Reader -- Preface -- 1. Three Examples of the Mutual Embrace -- 2. Measuring Gravity -- 3. Feynman's Infinite Circuit -- 4. Air Drag-A Mathematical View -- 5. Air Drag-A Physical Vie -- 6. Really Long Falls -- 7. The Zeta Function-and Physics -- 8. Ballistics-With No Air Drag (Yet) -- 9. Ballistics-With Air Drag -- 10. Gravity and Newton -- 11. Gravity Far Above the Earth -- 12. Gravity Inside the Earth -- 13. Quilts & Electricity -- 14. Random Walks -- 15. Two More Random Walks -- 16. Nearest Neighbors -- 17. One Last Random Walk -- 18. The Big Noise -- 19. Electricity in the Fourth Dimension -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- Backmatter restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star What does quilting have to do with electric circuit theory? The answer is just one of the fascinating ways that best-selling popular math writer Paul Nahin illustrates the deep interplay of math and physics in the world around us in his latest book of challenging mathematical puzzles, Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt. With his trademark combination of intriguing mathematical problems and the historical anecdotes surrounding them, Nahin invites readers on an exciting and informative exploration of some of the many ways math and physics combine to create something vastly more powerful, useful, and interesting than either is by itself. In a series of brief and largely self-contained chapters, Nahin discusses a wide range of topics in which math and physics are mutually dependent and mutually illuminating, from Newtonian gravity and Newton's laws of mechanics to ballistics, air drag, and electricity. The mathematical subjects range from algebra, trigonometry, geometry, and calculus to differential equations, Fourier series, and theoretical and Monte Carlo probability. Each chapter includes problems--some three dozen in all--that challenge readers to try their hand at applying what they have learned. Just as in his other books of mathematical puzzles, Nahin discusses the historical background of each problem, gives many examples, includes MATLAB codes, and provides complete and detailed solutions at the end. Mrs. Perkins's Electric Quilt will appeal to students interested in new math and physics applications, teachers looking for unusual examples to use in class--and anyone who enjoys popular math books. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Mathematical physics. Mathematics General. Science Physics Mathematical and amp Computational. MATHEMATICS / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691135403 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400833467 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400833467 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400833467.jpg |
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