Answers to Miscellaneous Problems

MATHEMATICAL
METHODS FOR
PHYSICISTS
FIFTH EDITION

George B. Arfken
Miami University
Oxford, Ohio

Hans J. Weber
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia

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