Book:Bruce van Brunt/The Calculus of Variations

Subject Matter

 * Calculus of Variations

Contents

 * I. Introduction


 * II. The First Variation


 * III. Some Generalizations


 * IV. Isoperimetric Problems


 * V. Applications to Eigenvalue Problems


 * VI. Holonomic and Nonholonomic Constraints


 * VII. Problems with Variable Endpoints


 * VIII. The Hamiltonian Formulation


 * IX. Noether's Theorem


 * X. The Second Variation


 * A. Analysis and Differential Equations


 * B. Function Spaces


 * References


 * Index