目次

Introduction.- Part I.- Canonical Projectile Problem: Finding the Escape Velocity of the Earth.- Of Mites and Models.- Canonical Soap Film Problem.- Heat Conduction in a Finite Bar with a Linear Source.- Heat Conduction in a Semi-Infinite Bar.- Initiation of Cellular Slime Mold Aggregation Viewed as an Instability.- Chemical Turning Patterns and Diffusive Instabilities.- Part II.- Governing Equations of Fluid Mechanics.- Boundary Conditions for Fluid Mechanics.- Subsonic Sound Waves Viewed as a Linear Perturbation in an Inviscid Fluid.- Potential Flow Past a Circular Cylinder of a Homogeneous Inviscid Fluid.- Viscous Fluid Flows.- Blasius Flow Past a Flat Plate.- Part III.- Rayleigh-Bernard Natural Convection Problem.- Heat Conduction in a Finite Bar with a Nonlinear Source.- Nonlinear Optical Ring-Cavity Model Driven by a Gas Laser.- Vegetative Flat Dryland Rhombic Pattern Formation Driven by Root Suction.- Part IV.- Calculus Variations Revisited plus the Gamma and Bessel Functions.- Alternate Methods of Solution for Heat and Wave Equation Problems.- Finite Mathematical Models.- Concluding Capstone Problems.