The Chemistry Maths BookThe Chemistry Maths Book provides a complete course companion suitable for students at all levels. All the most useful and important topics are covered, with numerous examples of applications in chemistry and the physical sciences. Taking a clear, straightforward approach, the book develops ideas in a logical, coherent way, allowing students progressively to build a thorough working understanding of the subject. Topics are organized into three parts: algebra, calculus, differential equations, and expansions in series; vectors, determinants and matrices; and numerical analysis and statistics. The extensive use of examples illustrates every important concept and method in the text, and are used to demonstrate applications of the mathematics in chemistry and several basic concepts in physics. The exercises at the end of each chapter, are an essential element of the development of the subject, and have been designed to give students a working understanding of the material in the text. Online Resource Centre: The Online Resource Centre features the following resources: - Figures from the book in electronic format, ready to download - Full worked solutions to all end of chapter exercises |
Contents
1 Numbers variables and units | 1 |
2 Algebraic functions | 31 |
3 Transcendental functions | 62 |
4 Differentiation | 93 |
5 Integration | 126 |
6 Methods of integration | 163 |
7 Sequences and series | 191 |
8 Complex numbers | 225 |
14 Partial differential equations | 391 |
15 Orthogonal expansions Fourier analysis | 416 |
16 Vectors | 444 |
17 Determinants | 474 |
18 Matrices and linear transformations | 499 |
19 The matrix eigenvalue problem | 532 |
20 Numerical methods | 558 |
21 Probability and statistics | 595 |
9 Functions of several variables | 247 |
10 Functions in 3 dimensions | 294 |
11 Firstorder differential equations | 314 |
12 Secondorder differential equations Constant coefficients | 337 |
13 Secondorder differential equations Some special functions | 368 |
Appendix Standard integrals | 627 |
Solutions to exercises | 631 |
Index | 653 |
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