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Solving Problems in Scientific Computing Using Maple and MATLAB® /

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From the reviews of the second edition: " ... The authors of this book have excelled by linking the title to two well-known mathematical packages, Maple and MATLAB. There are good reasons for this. Maple is supremely competent in symbolic mathematics and MATLAB in numerical and engineering calc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gander, Walter
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Hřebíček, Jiří
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1997.
Edition:Third, Expanded and rev. edition 1997.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
Computer science.
System theory.
Numerical analysis.
Mathematical optimization.
Engineering mathematics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The Tractrix and Similar Curves
  • 2. Trajectory of a Spinning Tennis Ball
  • 3. The Illumination Problem
  • 4. Orbits in the Planar Three-Body Problem
  • 5. The Internal Field in Semiconductors
  • 6. Some Least Squares Problems
  • 7. The Generalized Billiard Problem
  • 8. Mirror Curves
  • 9. Smoothing Filters
  • 10. The Radar Problem
  • 11. Conformal Mapping of a Circle
  • 12. The Spinning Top
  • 13. The Calibration Problem
  • 14. Heat Flow Problems
  • 15. Modeling Penetration Phenomena
  • 16. Heat Capacity of System of Bose Particles
  • 17. Free Metal Compression
  • 18. Gauss Quadrature
  • 19. Symbolic Computation of Explicit Runge-Kutta Formulas
  • 20. Transient Response of a Two-Phase Half-Wave Rectifier
  • 21. Circuits in Power Electronics
  • 22. Newton's and Kepler's Laws
  • 23. Least Squares Fit of Point Clouds
  • 24. Modeling Social Processes
  • 25. Contour Plots of Analytic Functions
  • 26. Non-Linear Least Squares: Finding the Most Accurate Location of an Aircraft
  • 27. Computing Plane Sundials.