New Publications: Nonlinear Physics with Mathematica for Scientists and Engineers

From: Roger L. Bagula (rlbtftn_at_netscape.net)
Date: 08/30/04 

Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 17:09:20 GMT

      Nonlinear Physics with Mathematica for Scientists and Engineers

        Richard H. Enns and George C. McGuire, 2001, Birkhäuser, 691
        pp., hardcover, includes CD-ROM.

This text is aimed at a wide audience, including undergraduate and
graduate students as well as working scientists. The experimental
activities included are designed to deepen and broaden the reader's
understanding of nonlinear physics. The Mathematica computer algebra
system is used extensively, although no prior knowledge of Mathematica
or programming is assumed. The CD-ROM included contains a wide variety
of illustrative nonlinear examples solved with Mathematica. There are
also 130 annotated Mathematica files that may be used to solve and
explore the text's four hundred problems.

Chapters

Part I: Theory: Introduction | Nonlinear Systems, Part I | Nonlinear
Systems, Part II | Topological Analysis | Analytic Methods | The
Numerical Approach | Limit Cycles | Forced Oscillators | Nonlinear Maps
| Nonlinear PDE Phenomena | Numerical Simulation | Inverse Scattering
Method

Part II: Experimental Activities: Introduction to Nonlinear Experiments
| Magnetic Force | Magnetic Tower | Spin Toy Pendulum | Driven Eardrum |
Nonlinear Damping | Anharmonic Potential | Iron Core Inductor |
Nonlinear LRC Circuit | Tunnel Diode Negative Resistance Curve | Tunnel
Diode Self-Excited Oscillator | Forced Duffing Equation | Focal Point
Instability | Compound Pendulum | Damped Simple Pendulum | Stable Limit
Cycle | Van der Pol Limit Cycle | Relaxation Oscillations: Neon Bulb |
Relaxation Oscillations: Drinking Bird | Relaxation Oscillations: Tunnel
Diode | Hard Spring | Nonlinear Resonance Curve: Mechanical | Nonlinear
Resonance Curve: Electrical | Nonlinear Resonance Curve: Magnetic |
Subharmonic Response: Period Doubling | Diode: Period Doubling |
Five-Well Magnetic Potential | Power Spectrum | Entrainment and
Quasiperiodicity | Quasiperiodicity | Chua's Butterfly | Route to Chaos
| Driven Spin Toy | Mapping

This book is available in the Wolfram Research bookstore
<http://store.wolfram.com/view/book/ISBN0817642234.str>
http://www.mathematica-journal.com/issue/v8i4/newpublications/ISBN0817642234.html 

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