Linear Algebra and Analytic Geometry for Physical Sciences

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-78360-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 345 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 5445 g

Reihe: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics

A self-contained introduction to finite dimensional vector spaces, matrices, systems of linear equations, spectral analysis on euclidean and hermitian spaces, affine euclidean geometry, quadratic forms and conic sections. The mathematical formalism is motivated and introduced by problems from physics, notably mechanics (including celestial) and electro-magnetism, with more than two hundreds examples and solved exercises.Topics include: The group of orthogonal transformations on euclidean spaces, in particular rotations, with Euler angles and angular velocity. The rigid body with its inertia matrix. The unitary group. Lie algebras and exponential map. The Dirac’s bra-ket formalism. Spectral theory for self-adjoint endomorphisms on euclidean and hermitian spaces. The Minkowski spacetime from special relativity and the Maxwell equations. Conic sections with the use of eccentricity and Keplerian motions. An appendix collects basic algebraic notions like group, ring and field; and complex numbers and integers modulo a prime number.The book will be useful to students taking a physics or engineer degree for a basic education as well as for students who wish to be competent in the subject and who may want to pursue a post-graduate qualification.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zampini, Alessandro

Landi, Giovanni

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Mathematik für Informatiker
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Mathematik für Ingenieure
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Geometrie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Algebra Lineare und multilineare Algebra, Matrizentheorie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Vectors and coordinate systems.- Vector spaces.- Euclidean vector spaces.- Matrices.- The determinant.- Systems of linear equations.- Linear transformations.- Dual spaces.- Endomorphisms and diagonalization.- Spectral theorems on euclidean spaces.- Rotations.- Spectral theorems on hermitian spaces.- Quadratic forms.- Affine linear geometry.- Euclidean affine linear geometry.- Conic sections.- A Algebraic Structures.- A.1 A few notions of Set Theory.- A.2 Groups.- A.3 Rings and Fields.- A.4 Maps between algebraic structures.- A5 Complex numbers.- A.6 Integers modulo a prime number.

Über Autor(innen)

Giovanni Landi is Professor of Mathematical Physics at the University of Trieste. He is a leading expert of noncummutative geometry, and board member of several journals in the field. He has also written the monograph "An Introduction to Noncommutative Spaces and their Geometries" published by Springer (1997).
Alessandro Zampini works at the University of Luxemburg, where he gives a course on linear algebra and analytic geometry.