THIS “Introduction to Vector-methods and their Various Applications to Physics and Mathematics” is an exposition of the late Willard Gibbs' vector analysis. The author in his preface warns us that “no ...

Explicit learning goals Interactive lectures Transformed homework problems (including a "bank" of potential HW problems) Common student difficulties & in-class group activities/tutorials Concept tests ...

(1) A NEW edition of this really useful book is to be welcomed. The author has returned to Heaviside's notation of p for the operator, a distinct improvement. The chapter on Bessel functions has been ...

Analogies between classical statistical mechanics and quantum field theory (QFT) played a pivotal role in the development of renormalization group (RG) methods for application in the two theories.

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