The Langevin Equation ─ With Applications to Stochastic Problems in Physics, Chemistry and Electrical Engineering

Coffey and Kalmykov demonstrate how the concept of the equation of motion of a Brownian particle--the Langevin equation--may be radically extended to solve the nonlinear problems that arise in the theory of the Brownian motion in a potential. They use a synergistic treatment to emphasize how ostensibly unrelated problems involving rotational and translational Brownian motion may be solved using virtually identity methods, thereby avoiding the rampant over-specialization that has become an obstacle to scientific progress. For this edition, they have substantially revised and reorganized the material to make it more useful to people in various subspecialties such an nanomagnetism, dielectric relaxation, electro-optics, and others. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)