MU:MU25007 Calculus of Variations - Course Information
MU25007 Calculus of Variations
Mathematical Institute in OpavaWinter 2015
- Extent and Intensity
- 2/2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
- Guaranteed by
- RNDr. Oldřich Stolín, Ph.D.
Mathematical Institute in Opava - Course Enrolment Limitations
- The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
- fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
- Geometry and Global Analysis (programme MU, N1101)
- Course objectives (in Czech)
- Cílem přednášky je seznámení studentů se základy variačního počtu a některými jeho aplikacemi.
- Syllabus
- Basics of calculus of variations (action functional, du ois-Reymond lemma, first variation).
Euler-Lagrange equations. Introduction to the inverse problem of calculus of variations.
Point symmetries of actions and Euler-Lagrange equations. Emmy Nother's First Theorem for point symmetries.
Basic notions of higher variations.
Least action principle in mechanics and its applications.
- Basics of calculus of variations (action functional, du ois-Reymond lemma, first variation).
- Literature
- recommended literature
- V. I. Arnold. Mathematical methods of classical mechanics. Springer, New York, 1999. ISBN 0387968903. info
- P. J. Olver. Applications of Lie groups to differential equations. Springer, New York, 1993. info
- I. M. Gelfand, S. V. Fomin. Calculus of Variations. Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1963. URL info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further Comments
- The course can also be completed outside the examination period.
- Enrolment Statistics (Winter 2015, recent)
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