Delta Functions
Introduction to Generalised Functions
- 2nd Edition - March 31, 2009
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Author: R F Hoskins
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 9 0 4 2 7 5 - 3 9 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 8 5 7 0 9 - 9 3 5 - 8
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Request a sales quoteDelta Functions has now been updated, restructured and modernised into a second edition, to answer specific difficulties typically found by students encountering delta functions for the first time. In particular, the treatment of the Laplace transform has been revised with this in mind. The chapter on Schwartz distributions has been considerably extended and the book is supplemented by a fuller review of Nonstandard Analysis and a survey of alternative infinitesimal treatments of generalised functions.
Dealing with a difficult subject in a simple and straightforward way, the text is readily accessible to a broad audience of scientists, mathematicians and engineers. It can be used as a working manual in its own right, and serves as a preparation for the study of more advanced treatises. Little more than a standard background in calculus is assumed, and attention is focused on techniques, with a liberal selection of worked examples and exercises.
- Second edition has been updated, restructured and modernised to answer specific difficulties typically found by students encountering delta functions for the first time
- Attention is focused on techniques, with a liberal selection of worked examples and exercises
- Readily accessible to a broad audience of scientists, mathematicians and engineers and can be used as a working manual in its own right
Scientists, mathematicians, and engineers
Chapter 1: Results from Elementary Analysis
- 1.1 THE REAL NUMBER SYSTEM
- 1.2 FUNCTIONS
- 1.3 CONTINUITY
- 1.4 DIFFERENTIABILITY
- 1.5 TAYLOR’S THEOREM
- 1.6 INTEGRATION
- 1.7 IMPROPER INTEGRALS
- 1.8 UNIFORM CONVERGENCE
- 1.9 DIFFERENTIATING INTEGRALS
Chapter 2: The Dirac Delta Function
- 2.1 THE UNIT STEP FUNCTION
- 2.2 DERIVATIVE OF THE UNIT STEP FUNCTION
- 2.3 THE DELTA FUNCTION AS A LIMIT
- 2.4 STIELTJES INTEGRALS
- 2.5 DEVELOPMENTS OF DELTA FUNCTION THEORY
- 2.6 HISTORICAL NOTE
Chapter 3: Properties of the Delta Function
- 3.1 THE DELTA FUNCTION AS A FUNCTIONAL
- 3.2 SUMS AND PRODUCTS
- Exercises I
- 3.3 DIFFERENTIATION
- Exercises II
- 3.4 DERIVATIVES OF THE DELTA FUNCTION
- 3.5 POINTWISE DESCRIPTION OF δ′(t)
- 3.6 INTEGRATION OF THE DELTA FUNCTION
- 3.7 CHANGE OF VARIABLE
Chapter 4: Time-invariant Linear Systems
- 4.1 SYSTEMS AND OPERATORS
- 4.2 STEP RESPONSE AND IMPULSE RESPONSE
- 4.3 CONVOLUTION
- 4.4 IMPULSE RESPONSE FUNCTIONS
- 4.5 TRANSFER FUNCTION
Chapter 5: The Laplace Transform
- 5.1 THE CLASSICAL LAPLACE TRANSFORM
- 5.2 LAPLACE TRANSFORMS OF DELTA FUNCTIONS
- 5.3 COMPUTATION OF LAPLACE TRANSFORMS
- 5.4 NOTE ON INVERSION
Chapter 6: Fourier Series and Transforms
- 6.1 FOURIER SERIES
- 6.2 GENERALISED FOURIER SERIES
- 6.3 FOURIER TRANSFORMS
- 6.4 GENERALISED FOURIER TRANSFORMS
Chapter 7: Other Generalised Functions
- 7.1 FRACTIONAL CALCULUS
- 7.2 HADAMARD FINITE PART
- 7.3 PSEUDO-FUNCTIONS
Chapter 8: Introduction to distributions
- 8.1 TEST FUNCTIONS
- 8.2 FUNCTIONALS AND DISTRIBUTIONS
- 8.3 CALCULUS OF DISTRIBUTIONS
- 8.4 GENERAL SCHWARTZ DISTRIBUTIONS
Chapter 9: Integration Theory
- 9.1 RIEMANN-STIELTJES INTEGRALS
- 9.2 EXTENSION OF THE ELEMENTARY INTEGRAL
- 9.3 THE LEBESGUE AND RIEMANN INTEGRALS
Chapter 10: Introduction to N.S.A
- 10.1 A NONSTANDARD NUMBER SYSTEM
- 10.2 NONSTANDARD EXTENSIONS
- 10.3 ELEMENTARY ANALYSIS
- 10.4 INTERNAL OBJECTS
Chapter 11: Nonstandard Generalised Functions
- 11.1 NONSTANDARD δ-FUNCTIONS
- 11.2 PRE-DELTA FUNCTIONS
- 11.3 PERIODIC DELTA FUNCTIONS
- 11.4 N.S.A. AND DISTRIBUTIONS
Solutions to Exercises
- CHAPTER 2
- CHAPTER 3
- CHAPTER 4
- CHAPTER 5
- CHAPTER 6
Index
- Edition: 2
- Published: March 31, 2009
- No. of pages (eBook): 288
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9781904275398
- eBook ISBN: 9780857099358
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