Integral Equations, Calculus of Variations and its Applications
Integral Equations, Calculus of Variations and its Applications. Instructors: Dr. P. N. Agarwal and Dr. D. N. Pandey, Department of Mathematics, IIT Roorkee. This course is a basic course offered to PG students of Engineering/Science background. It contains Fredholm and Volterra integral equations and their solutions using various methods such as Neumann series, resolvent kernels, Green's function approach and transform methods. It also contains extrema of functional, the Brachistochrone problem, Euler equation, variational derivative and invariance of Euler equations. It plays an important role for solving various engineering sciences problems. Therefore, it has tremendous applications in diverse fields in engineering sciences. (from nptel.ac.in)
Lecture 60 - Hamilton's Principle: Variational Principle of Least Action |
In this lecture we discuss the application of calculus of variations. We consider the motion of a particle of mass m moving in a force field and show that the motion is such that the integral of the difference between the kinetic and potential energies is stationary for the true path.
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