Book basically divided into two parts. Chapters 1-4 include background material, basic theorems and isoperimetric problems. Chapters 5-12 are devoted to applications, geometrical optics, particle dynamics, the theory of elasticity, electrostatics, quantum mechanics and other topics. Exercises in each chapter. 1952 edition.
There seems to have been published, up to the present time, no Englishlanguage volume in which an elementary introduction to the calculus of variations is followed by extensive application of the subject to problems of physics and theoretical engineering. The present volume is offered as partial fulfillment of the need for such a book.
