7.2 Calculus of Variations - MIT Mathematics
math.mit.edu › classes › 187.2. CALCULUS OF VARIATIONS c 2006 Gilbert Strang 7.2 Calculus of Variations One theme of this book is the relation of equations to minimum principles. To minimize P is to solve P 0 = 0. There may be more to it, but that is the main point. For a quadratic P(u) = 1 2 uTKu uTf, there is no di culty in reaching P 0 = Ku f = 0. The matrix K is ...
Applied Calculus of Variations for Engineers
www.iust.ac.ir › calculus_of_variationsThe foundations of calculus of variations The problem of the calculus of variations evolves from the analysis of func-tions. In the analysis of functions the focus is on the relation between two sets of numbers, the independent (x) and the dependent (y) set. The func-tion f creates a one-to-one correspondencebetween these two sets, denoted as y ...
Calculus of Variations - IIST
www.iist.ac.in › default › filesCalculus of Variations Raju K George, IIST Lecture-1 In Calculus of Variations, we will study maximum and minimum of a certain class of functions. We first recall some maxima/minima results from the classical calculus. Maxima and Minima Let X and Y be two arbitrary sets and f : X → Y be a well-defined function having domain X and range Y.