AM 456Calculus of Variations
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1989–90 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Euler-Lagrange equations for constrained and unconstrained single and double integral variational problems. Parameter-invariant single integrals. General variational formula. The canonical formalism. Hilbert's independent integral. Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the Caratheodory complete figure. Fields and the Legendre and Weierstrass sufficient conditions. Formerly AM 482
As printed in the 1989–90 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1989–90 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1989–90 to 1994–95 6 calendars
Euler-Lagrange equations for constrained and unconstrained single and double integral variational problems. Parameter-invariant single integrals. General variational formula. The canonical formalism. Hilbert's independent integral. Hamilton-Jacobi equation and the Caratheodory complete figure. Fields and the Legendre and Weierstrass sufficient conditions.
Formerly AM 482
Prereq: AM 231 or MATH 230B, or consent of instructor
Offered Fall · 3 class hours a week · 0.5 credit