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                                        Matrices (Continued)                       initial condition, influence of,
                                          random walks in crystals, application        573–575
                                              of, 194–197                          initial displacement, 570–573,
                                          reduced row echelon form, 203–208            581–582
                                          reduced systems, 213–219                 initial velocity, 568–570, 572–573,
                                          row operations, 198–208                      579–581
                                          row space (rank), 208–212                intervals of, 567–577
                                          scalar algebra operations, 188           Laplace transform techniques for,
                                          singular, 227, 229–230                       587–593
                                          skew-hermitian, 288–290                  semi-infinite medium, in a, 585–587
                                          square, 192                              sliding, 31–33
                                          symmetric, 273–275                       spring, 61–71
                                          transition, 317                          unforced, 62–66
                                          transpose of, 193–194                    vibrations in a membrane, 602–610
                                          unitary, 286–288                         wave, 567–587, 596–610
                                          upper triangular (U), 237
                                          zero, 192
                                                                                N
                                        Matrix of coefficients, 213–215
                                                                                          n
                                                                                n-space (R ), 162–174
                                        Matrix tree theorem, 262–264
                                                                                   basis, 172–173
                                        Maximum principle, harmonic
                                                                                   coordinates of, 172–173
                                            functions, 710
                                                                                   dimension, 172
                                        Mclaurin series, 718
                                                                                   dot product of, 163–164
                                        Mean value property, harmonic
                                                                                   linear dependence and independence
                                            functions, 709–710
                                                                                       theorem for, 167–170
                                        Method of least squares, 180
                                                                                   orthogonal vectors, 164, 173–174
                                        Minor determinant, 256
                                                                                   orthonormal vectors, 164, 173
                                        Mixing problem, 18–20, 304–306
                                                                                   spanning set for, 166–172
                                        Möbius transformations, 758
                                                                                   standard representation of, 165
                                        Modified Bessel function, 543–545
                                        Modulation, Fourier transforms, 477        subspace (S), 165–174
                                        Mortality function m(t),99               Nabla ∇, 356–357, 362–363
                                        Motion, 31–33, 61–71, 567–587,           Natural length (L),61
                                            596–610                              Neumann problems, 659–665
                                          Cauchy initial-boundary value            disk, for a, 662–664
                                              problem, 594–601                     Green’s first identity for, 659
                                          constant c influence of, 573–575          rectangle, for a, 660–662
                                          d’Alembert’s solution for, 594–601       square, for a, 660
                                          forced, 66–67, 599–601                   unbounded regions, for, 664–665
                                          forcing term for, 567, 575–577         Neumann’s function of order zero,
                                          forward and backward waves,                538–540
                                              596–599                            Nodal sink, 331
                                          infinite medium, in a, 579–584          Nodal source, 331–332




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