文档介绍：Mathematical Methods for Engineers and Scientists 2
. Tang
Mathematical Methods
for Engineers and Scientists
2
Vector Analysis, Ordinary Differential Equations
and Laplace Transforms
With 73 Figures and
4 Tables
123
Professor Dr. Kwong-Tin
Tang
Pacific Lutheran University
Department of Physics
a, WA 98447, USA
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ISBN-10 3-540-30268-9 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
ISBN-13 978-3-540-30268-1 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York
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Preface
For some thirty years, I have taught two “Mathematical Physics” courses.
One of them was previously named “Engineering Analysis”. There are several
textbooks of unquestionable merit for such courses, but I could not find one
that fitted our needs. It seemed to me that students might have an easier
time if some changes were made i