Volume and Surface Integrals Used in Physics

First published in 1913, this book provides a concise account regarding volume and surface integrals used in physics.

J. G. Leathem (Author)

9781107493810, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 March 2015

80 pages
21.6 x 14 x 0.5 cm, 0.11 kg

First published in 1913, as the second edition of a 1905 original, this book is the first volume in the Cambridge Tracts in Mathematics and Mathematical Physics Series. The text provides a concise account regarding volume and surface integrals used in physics. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in integrals and physics.

Introduction
1. On the validity of volume-integral expressions for the potential and the components of attraction of a body of discontinuous structure
2. Potentials and attractions of accurately continuous bodies
3. Volume integrals
4. Theorems connecting volume and surface integrals
5. The differentiation of volume integrals
6. Applications to potential theory
7. Applications to theory of magnetism
8. Surface integrals
9. Volume integrals through regions that extend to infinity
10. Gauss's theorem in the theory of attractions
11. Some hydrodynamical theorems.

Subject Areas: History of engineering & technology [TBX]