Index
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Abramowitz and Stegun, 7 , 51, 341, 365
absolute convergence, 29
acceleration, 63
Adams methods, 279
stable 281
air mass, 344
air resistance, 40
alternating symbol, 174, 231, 232
alternating tensor, 158, 303, 322, 323
analytic, 352
core properties 352
function 348
angular momentum, 144–145, 146, 148–150,
162, 294, 397, 399
angular velocity, 144, 162
annulus, 351
anti-commutator, 176
antihermitian, 170
antisymmetric, 158, 170, 302 –303, 323
Apollo 16, 187
area element, 189
area mass density, 188
area vector, 214, 219
arithmetic mean, 120
as the crow flies, 132
asphalt, 390
associative law, 124, 125
asteroid, 212
asymptotic, 33
asymptotic behavior, 90
atlas, 360
atmosphere, 344
autocorrelation function, 379
- backwards iteration, 282
barn, 201
basis, 101, 105, 107, 111, 120, 127 –134,
146–167, 254, 257, 298–320
change 165, 317
cylindrical 192
Hermite 174
reciprocal 308
spherical 192
Benson, David, 110
Bernoulli, 388
Bessel, 74, 75, 94, 188, 207, 348, 368
β= 1/kT, 199, 209
bilinear concomitant, 106, 107
billiard ball, 209
binomial:
coefficient, 31, 33
series 25, 31, 38, 46, 64, 351
birefringence, 303
blizzard, 187
Bolivia, 360
boundary condition, 77, 106–110, 228, 244,
246, 248, 249, 252, 258, 260,
262–264, 386
boundary layer, 98
boundary value, 365
boundary value problem, 247
brachistochrone, 327, 388
branch point, 353, 359 –360, 363, 364
brass, 383
Brazil, 360
bulk modulus, 114- CaCO 3 , 303
calcite, 303
calculus of variations, 383
capacitance, 392
capacitor, 81
Cauchy, 353, 365
Cauchy sequence, 135, 141
Cauchy-Schwartz inequality, 130, 133 –134, 137
Cayley-Hamilton Theorem, 175
center of mass, 411
central limit theorem, 34
chain rule, 21, 181, 206, 349
characteristic equation, 163, 168
characteristic polynomial, 175
charge density, 421
charged rings, 41
Chebyshev polynomial, 141
checkerboard, 258
chemistry, 142
circuit, 81 , 121
circulation density, 331
clarinet, 109
Coast and Geodetic Survey, 187
coaxial cable, 392
coefficient of expansion, 383
429