Fractional Derivatives for Physicists and Engineers Background and Theory /

• Main Author: Uchaikin, Vladimir V. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: Nonlinear Physical Science,
• Subjects: Physics.; Computer mathematics.; Statistics.; Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.

The first derivative of a particle coordinate means its velocity, the second means its acceleration, but what does a fractional order derivative mean? Where does it come from, how does it work, where does it lead to? The two-volume book written on high didactic level answers these questions. Fractio...