Handbook of Elliptic Integrals for Engineers and Scientists

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Springer Science & Business Media, Dec 6, 2012 - Mathematics - 360 pages
Engineers and physicists are more and more encountering integrations involving nonelementary integrals and higher transcendental functions. Such integrations frequently involve (not always in immediately re cognizable form) elliptic functions and elliptic integrals. The numerous books written on elliptic integrals, while of great value to the student or mathematician, are not especially suitable for the scientist whose primary objective is the ready evaluation of the integrals that occur in his practical problems. As a result, he may entirely avoid problems which lead to elliptic integrals, or is likely to resort to graphical methods or other means of approximation in dealing with all but the simplest of these integrals. It became apparent in the course of my work in theoretical aero dynamics that there was a need for a handbook embodying in convenient form a comprehensive table of elliptic integrals together with auxiliary formulas and numerical tables of values. Feeling that such a book would save the engineer and physicist much valuable time, I prepared the present volume.
 

Contents

Definitions and Fundamental Relations
8
P
20
Conformal Mappings p 28 Applications p
28
Addition
34
Other transformations p
40
Reduction of Trigonometric Integrands to Jacobian Elliptic Functions
162
Reduction of Hyperbolic Integrands to Jacobian Elliptic Functions
182
Tables of Integrals of Jacobian Elliptic Functions
191
Elliptic Integrals Resulting from Laplace Transformations
249
Integrals of the Elliptic Integrals
272
Derivatives
282
Miscellaneous Integrals and Formulas
288
Expansions in Series
298
Appendix
308
Theta Functions
315
Table of Numerical Values
322

Elliptic Integrals of the Third Kind
223
Table of Miscellaneous Elliptic Integrals Involving Trigonometric or Hyperbolic
240
Bibliography
351
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