Center of Mass and Moments

Jiří Gregor () and Jaroslav Tišer ()
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Jiří Gregor: Czech Technical University, Department of Mathematics
Jaroslav Tišer: Czech Technical University, Department of Mathematics

Chapter 9 in Discovering Mathematics, 2011, pp 163-176 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The dynamics of an isolated system of N free particles, each with the mass m i , i=1,2,…,N is completely determined by the collection of their moments (of order 1). Generalizations of this concept opened new ways in applied sciences as well as in mathematics. Interconnections between the moment problem and least squares techniques form the basic idea of orthogonal series, which became an important tool in approximation theory.

Keywords: Probability Density Function; Static Moment; Legendre Polynomial; Equal Mass; Moment Problem (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-85729-064-9_10

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