AMATH 507 - Calculus of Variations

Institution:

University of Washington-Seattle Campus

Subject:

Applied Mathematics

Description:

Necessary and sufficient conditions for a weak and strong extremum. Legendre transformation, Hamiltonian systems. Constraints and Lagrange multipliers. Space-time problems with examples from elasticity, electromagnetics, and fluid mechanics. Sturm-Liouville problems. Approximate methods.

Credits:

5.00

Credit Hours:

Prerequisites:

AMATH 351 or MATH 307; MATH 324, 327; recommended: AMATH 402 and AMATH 403 or MATH 428 and 429

Corequisites:

Exclusions:

Level:

Instructional Type:

Lecture

Notes:

Additional Information:

Historical Version(s):

Institution Website:

www.washington.edu

Phone Number:

(206) 543-2100

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

Calendar System:

Quarter

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