Lectures on Nonlinear Physics

Sergei V Bulanov

ISBN 10: 8876422676 / ISBN 13: 9788876422676

Verlag: Scuola Normale Superiore Okt 2001, 2001

Beschreibung

Neuware - The main goal of these lectures is to get students acquainted with a glossary of nonlinear physics. I try to present the material of the lectures (delivered at SNS Pisa in April -- June 1999) in such a way that the students do not need to use additional literature during the first reading. The lectures focus on the following arguments: discussion of nonlinear problems in classical physics; the use of the multiple time scale expansion method to solve problems of nonlinear oscillations; description of nonlinear wave steepening and shock wave formation using the Lagrange variables; solution of nonlinear elliptic equations considering the Liouville equation; soliton solutions of the Korteweg de Vries, Sine-Gordon and Nonlinear Schrödinger equations; the use of the Backlund transformation; self-similarity of nonlinear systems.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9788876422676

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Lectures on Nonlinear Physics
• Verlag: Scuola Normale Superiore Okt 2001
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 8876422676
• ISBN-13: 9788876422676
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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The main goal of these lectures is to get students acquainted with a glossary of nonlinear physics. I try to present the material of the lectures (delivered at SNS Pisa in April -- June 1999) in such a way that the students do not need to use additional literature during the first reading. The lectures focus on the following arguments: discussion of nonlinear problems in classical physics; the use of the multiple time scale expansion method to solve problems of nonlinear oscillations; description of nonlinear wave steepening and shock wave formation using the Lagrange variables; solution of nonlinear elliptic equations considering the Liouville equation; soliton solutions of the Korteweg de Vries, Sine-Gordon and Nonlinear Schrödinger equations; the use of the Backlund transformation; self-similarity of nonlinear systems.