Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences/Chapter 4/section sidebar

Chapter 3 - 4 - 5

• 1. Introduction and notation
• 2. Power series in two variables
• 3. Total differentials
• 4. Approximate calculations using differentials
• 5. Chain rule or differentiating a function of a function
• 6. Implicit differentiation
• 7. More chain rule
• 8. Application of partial differentiation to maximum and minimum problems
• 9. Maximum and minimum problems with constraints; Lagrange multipliers
• 10. Endpoint or boundary point problems
• 11. Change of variables
• 12. Differential of integrals; Liebniz' rule
• 13. Miscellaneous Problems