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Mathematics applied to continuum mechanics
by Lee A Segel
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Macmillan (1977)
ISBN: 0024087009
EAN: 9780024087003
Paperback: 590 pages
SKU: 092208034
Condition: Used: Good
Comments: ...No noticeable Underlining or Highlighting...minor wear on cover
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
This modern classic analyzes continuum models of fluid flow and solid deformation, examining problems in continuum mechanics, water waves, extremum principles and much more. For upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in the fields of applied mathematics, science and engineering.
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Customer Reviews
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Classic
Rating  (4)
Date: 2008-08-12
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
It's a classic, according to a professor/acquaintance at the University of Washington. Plus, it looks great on my bookshelf. Classy. Smart.
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Good for the price, but often confusing wrt notation
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-10-23
4 out of 4 customers found this reveiw helpful
Dover publications is famous for low price academic books, and this one is no exception. It retails for around $14, so beware of marketplace sellers charging more. The book is good value for the money and goes into great detail about the mathematics. There are also lots of examples (and some but only some even have hints). If I were to *really* factor price into my rating, I'd give it one star more.
The two areas where this book could have been better is (1) It does not explain the physical significance of the things it discusses: this is nitpicking at best coz the book is clearly slanted towards mathematics, not physics. (2) The notation is confusing. This is perhaps the only book in the world which uses U for Airy stress function. In other places, U is displacement, so we are not even consistent. I dislike authors changing notation on us, especially when there's not even a list of symbols page. They assume the book is being read from start to finish, which for an academic book is a lousy assumption to make.
I will point out that I have read this book very selectively: mostly the first 4 chapters (intro, tensors, cfd, elasticity) and part of the variational methods section (which is clearly inferior to Gelfand and Fomin). The section on waves might be stellar but I havent read it at all.
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