What is Introduction: Definition and 789 Discussions
In an essay, article, or book, an introduction (also known as a prolegomenon) is a beginning section which states the purpose and goals of the following writing. This is generally followed by the body and conclusion.
The introduction typically describes the scope of the document and gives the brief explanation or summary of the document. It may also explain certain elements that are important to the essay if explanations are not part of the main text. The readers can have an idea about the following text before they actually start reading it.
ln technical writing, the introduction typically includes one or more standard subsections: abstract or summary, preface, acknowledgments, and foreword. Alternatively, the section labeled introduction itself may be a brief section found side-by-side with abstract, foreword, etc. (rather than containing them). In this case the set of sections that come before the body of the book are known as the front matter. When the book is divided into numbered chapters, by convention the introduction and any other front-matter sections are unnumbered and precede chapter 1.
Keeping the concept of the introduction the same, different documents have different styles to introduce the written text. For example, the introduction of a Functional Specification consists of information that the whole document is yet to explain. If a Userguide is written, the introduction is about the product. In a report, the introduction gives a summary about the report contents.
So I'm pretty new to the subject of quantum mechanics and was wondering if you folks know of any books or sites that give an introduction to Quantum mechanics. I should emphasis that I'm looking for rather basic explanations as my knowledge of the subject matter is minimal to nothing.
Thanks...
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I am interested in self-teaching basic combustion concepts. Is there a good textbook available that introduces combustion at an undergraduate level for someone with high school chemistry knowledge?
Thanks very much
I am (trying to :-) ) reading Dummit and Foote Section 10.4 on Tensor Products of Modules and am finding D&F's introduction to the topic of tensor products quite bewildering! ...
Can anyone give me a simple definition of a tensor product of modules together with an example to give me a basic...
I hope I am posting this question in the correct forum.
I am in the second course in an upper level Electricity and Magnetism sequence (E&M II). We are using Griffith's Introduction to Electrodynamics as in the first course in the sequence. We covered chapters 1-3, 5, 7, and some of 8 in the...
Does introducing small amount of hydrogen and oxygen with gasoline into an internal combustion engine make the sensor read lean and and just enter more gasoline?
John
This is a graph containing the main Tschirnhausen transformations of a general quintic and the algorithms to solve them. The methods would be explicitly described most probably elsewhere in this forum
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The lower-most nodes are the...
I am currently working from the Morris Kline: An Intuitive Approach to Calculus. I am beginning to understand why the math is done and what is happening throughout the problem. So far I am about to start the Chain Rule.
My school uses Stewart for all their Calculus series and I have read...
Somebody threw a few books away and I found some Gems. From Tolstoy to Nahuatl philosophy and even a copy of Apostol!
The one that interested me the most was Serwey Physics for Scientist and Engineers. I have never read or took a physics a class. Is Serwey a good starting point to learn physics?
I'm not quite sure what this course will entail, but it sounds interesting as I've been very interested in simulations like this, albeit it is a math class (MA1600) and my question is mainly this: what exactly would a class like this entail? What are the usual languages used? I've been required...
Semi-direct products are often confusing to the budding group theorist, with good reason: they are a bit more complicated than the more transparent direct products.
First off, let's start with a (my apologies) formal definition:
We need 2 groups to start with: we shall call these groups (for...
Hello everybody! Wanted to ask a couple of questions...
1) Which is the definition of a conformal field theory?
2) Which are the physical prerequisites one would need to start studying conformal field theories? (i.e Does one need to know supersymmetry? Does one need non-perturbative...
Hello! I would like to find a book which covers the historical development of Quantum Mechanics from which I can learn which experiments lead to which discoveries. In lectures you usually only get taught formalisms, but I would really like to know how the theory was developed.
Can you tell me...
Hello all,
I am looking for a set of videos/youtube lectures which can take somebody from zero physics knowledge up to a decent standard. This is purely for personal reasons as I'm not taking exams and would just like to have a relatively good understanding of the universe (as we know it)...
Author: G. H. Hardy, Edward M. Wright
Title: An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0199219869/?tag=pfamazon01-20
My goal: To show the dimension of space L equals the length of any maximal flag of L;
Is the following valid?
My attempt:
Let M \rightarrow {L_{i-1}, ... L_i}
where {e_i} \in L_i | e_i \not\in L_{i-1}
Assuming e_i \in M and e_i \not\in L_{i-1},
we can say: e_i \in L_i and L_i...
In Natural deduction in Predicate logic we have a rule which says [assume the set of hypotheses to be H)
if H implies phi(x) then H implies [for all x phi(x)] such that x doesn't belong to FV(psi) for all psi in H [indeed such that x occurs free in no one of formulas in H]
In other words, if...
Penrose Diagrams -- Introduction
I'm woefully ignorant of a lot of things in GR, and now that I'm moving away from my comfortable spot in condensed matter, I'd like to know how to interpret Penrose diagrams. I'm having trouble understanding what it is they're actually showing and why they'd be...
I'm currently a 2nd year undergrad student. I have done introductory courses on Mechanics and Electromagnetism, with the corresponding maths required for them.
I am trying to figure out where my interests lie in order to apply for Grad school next year (my degree is of 3 years). I need a list...
I'm in the market for an intro book covering airborne and ground radar fundamentals. The following two books are the top sellers on Amazon, but top seller doesn't mean best quality (Stewart Calculus, etc.).
An Introduction to Airborne Radar by Stimson
Principles of Modern Radar: Basic...
We usually talk about good books, but we rarely talk about bad books. And that is good.
But sometimes, we find that some book is so bad, so really bad, that we strongly want to tell this to the others. So I open this thread to inform others about science books which you find so bad that it...
Recommend book to follow "Introduction to Analysis" by Rosenlicht
I am trying to build a great foundation in analysis before moving into functional analysis, ode and tensor calc( planning on graduate school in computational fluid mechanics ). I love the style of Rosenlichts text. What's the...
Hey there! I recently bought said book and would highly recommend it for any Astronomy and Cosmology undergrads. However, one little niggling thing about it (something that grinds my gears in general with textbooks) is that it features end of chapter questions yet no set of answers for the...
Author: George Parks
Title: Physics Of Space Plasmas: An Introduction
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0813341299/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Prerequisities: Introductory physics, modern physics, calculus through PDEs, E&M, introductory astrophysics/astronomy (basically three years of a...
Author: Margaret G. Kivelson and Christopher T. Russell (Editors)
Title: Introduction to Space Physics
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0521457149/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Prerequisities: Introductory physics, modern physics, calculus through PDEs, E&M, introductory astrophysics/astronomy...
Author: Francis F. Chen
Title: Introduction to Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1441932011/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Prerequisities: Introductory physics, modern physics, calculus through PDEs, E&M
Contents: Undergraduate, upper level; Graduate...
Homework Statement
X is a metric and E is a subspace of X (E\subsetX)
The boundary ∂E of a set E is defined to be the set of points adherent to both E and the complement of E,
∂E=\overline{E}\cap(\overline{X\E})
(ignore the red color, i can't get it out)
Show that E is open if and only...
Homework Statement
Two cars start from the same point at the same time, with one car traveling at a constant speed of 55 mph, and the other car having a constant speed of 70 mph. How far has the faster car traveled when it has a 15 minute lead on the slower car?
Problems like this always...
Author: Robert Stewart
Title: Introduction to Physical Oceanography
Download Link: http://oceanworld.tamu.edu/resources/ocng_textbook/PDF_files/book_pdf_files.html
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Author: Serge Lang
Title: Introduction to Linear Algebra
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3540780602/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Prerequisities: High-School mathematics
Level: Undergrad
Table of Contents:
Vectors
Definition of Points in Space
Located Vectors
Scalar Product
The Norm of...
Author: Arthur Mattuck
Title: Introduction to Analysis
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0130811327/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Prerequisities:
Level: Undergrad
Table of Contents:
Preface
Real Numbers and Monotone Sequences
Introduction; Real numbers
Increasing sequences
Limit of an...
Author: Michael Spivak
Title: A Comprehensive Introduction to Differential Geometry
Amazon Link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0914098705/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0914098713/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0914098721/?tag=pfamazon01-20...
Author: William Feller
Title: An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications
Amazon Link:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471257087/?tag=pfamazon01-20
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0471257095/?tag=pfamazon01-20
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Table of Contents for Volume I:
Introduction: The Nature of...
Author: Gilbert Strang
Title: Introduction to Linear Algebra
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0980232716/?tag=pfamazon01-20
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Table of Contents:
Introduction to Vectors
Vectors and Linear Combinations
Lengths and Dot Products
Solving Linear Equations...
Author: John Lee
Title: Riemannian Manifolds: An Introduction to Curvature
Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/dp/0387983228/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Prerequisities: "Introduction to Smooth Manifolds" by Lee seems like a prereq.
Level: Grad
Table of Contents:
Preface
What Is Curvature?
The...
Author: John Lee
Title: Introduction to Smooth Manifolds
Amazon link https://www.amazon.com/dp/0387954481/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Prerequisities: Topology, Linear algebra, Calculus 3. Some analysis wouldn't hurt either.
Level: Grad
Table of Contents:
Smooth Manifolds
Topological Manifolds...
Author: Daniel Kleppner and Robert J. Kolenkow
Title: An Introduction to Mechanics
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0521198119/?tag=pfamazon01-20
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Table of Contents:
1. Vectors and kinematics - a few mathematical preliminaries
2. Newton's laws - the foundations of...
Author: Sean M. Carroll
Title: Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805387323/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Download Link: http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March01/Carroll3/Carroll_contents.html
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1...
The Basic Practice of Statistics by David Moore
Author: David Moore
Title: The Basic Practice of Statistics
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1429230932/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Prerequisities: Calculus 1,2,3, Linear Algebra
Table of Contents:
To the Instructor: About This Book
To the...
Author: Michael E. Peskin (Author), Dan V. Schroeder (Author)
Title: An Introduction to Quantum Field Theory
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201503972/?tag=pfamazon01-20
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Author: Charles Kittel
Title: Introduction to Solid State Physics
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/047141526X/?tag=pfamazon01-20
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Author: Thomas H. Cormen (Author), Charles E. Leiserson (Author), Ronald L. Rivest (Author), Clifford Stein (Author)
Title: Introduction to Algorithms
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0262033844/?tag=pfamazon01-20
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Author: David Poole
Title: Linear Algebra: A Modern Introduction
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0538735457/?tag=pfamazon01-20
Prerequisities:
Table of Contents:
Vectors
Introduction: The Racetrack Game
The Geometry and Algebra of Vectors
Length and Angle: The Dot Product...
Author: Bradley W. Carroll (Author), Dale A. Ostlie (Author)
Title: An Introduction to Modern Astrophysics
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0805304029/?tag=pfamazon01-20
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Author: Wolfgang Demtröder
Title: Atoms, Molecules and Photons: An Introduction
Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/3642102972/?tag=pfamazon01-20
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