By Dan Green
World Scientific
Hardback (with DVD): £48
Paperback (with DVD: £23
E-book: £17
The aim of this book is to have an interactive MATLAB script where the user can vary parameters in a specific problem and then immediately see the outcome by way of dynamic “movies” of the response of the system in question. MATLAB tools are used throughout, and the software scripts accompany the text in symbolic mathematics, classical mechanics, electromagnetism, waves and optics, gases and fluid flow, quantum mechanics, special and general relativity, and astrophysics and cosmology. The emphasis is on building up an intuition by running many different parametric choices chosen actively by the user and watching the subsequent behaviour of the system.