Mathematical Physics
Explore fields and transforms; variational and spectral methods; symmetry and conservation. Concepts and connections are available independently of video coverage.
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Tensors
Tensors encode multilinear quantities with consistent transformation laws under coordinate changes.
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Calculus of variations
Variational calculus studies extrema of functionals depending on functions.
Definite integrals
A Riemann integral describes signed accumulation as a limit of sums, for functions satisfying the integrability conditions.
Dimensional similarity
Dimensionless groups compare physical systems while respecting the dimensions of quantities.
Noether's theorem
Continuous variational symmetries lead to conservation laws under the theorem's hypotheses.
Distributions as generalized functions
A distribution acts linearly and continuously on test functions, allowing generalized derivatives.
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