INDEX 381
electric field, 163
electric field lines, 211
electric field vector, 211
electric potential, 141, 163
electrostatics, 146
elliptic integral
complete, 298
incomplete, 298
energy units, 45
equipotential, 104, 148, 158, 212
Erehwon, 7, 25
erf, 60
erfc, 243, 248
erfi, 60
error, 319
error function, 60, 192, 226
complimentary, 243, 248
essential singularity, 205
Euler angles, 120
Euler identity, 222
Euler number, 84
Euler–Lagrange equation, 257, 262
falling basketball, 55
falling raindrop, 55
Fermat’s principle, 262
Fick’s law, 242
first integral, 14, 257, 259, 262
fluid flow, 183, 219
focal point, 306
forced vibration, 180
Fourier coefficients, 81, 134
Fourier cosine series, 72, 76
Fourier cosine transform, 228
Fourier series, 72, 74, 133
Fourier sine series, 72, 76
Fourier sine transform, 225
Fourier transform, 230
Fourier’s integral theorem, 222
frequency
driving, 28
natural, 28
Frobenius series, 65, 69
fundamental, 180
fundamental frequency, 153
fundamental range, 72
Gauss’s theorem, 106
Gaussian, 33, 130, 223
Gegenbauer ODE, 40
general relativity, 286
geodesic, 286
geometrical optics, 286
Gibb’s phenomenon, 74, 171
gradient, 91
gravitational force, 42
Green function, 33, 57, 180
symmetry property, 50
Green function method, 48
Green’s function, 239
electrostatic, 156
ground state energy, 284
grounded conducting plate, 156, 209
Hamilton’s principle, 273
Hankel transform, 253
hard spring, 297, 319
heat diffusion, 169, 255
heat equation, 225
heat flux, 181
Heaviside function, 56, 223
Heaviside layer, 141
Heaviside, Oliver, 141
Helmholtz, 331
Hermite function, 45
Hermite ODE, 45
Hermite polynomial, 46
Hooke’s law, 25, 28, 45, 232
Huxley and Nagumo, 331
hydrogenic atom, 183
hyperbolic sine function, 169
hypergeometric function, 82, 162
I. M. Curious, 28, 104, 247
impulsive force, 256
incomplete separation, 161
indentation, 198
indented contour, 199
indicial equation, 71
inductance, 141