ABSTRACT

HOW TO USE THIS CHAPTER: This chapter reviews the mathematics concepts and methods that will be used in the text. Readers may choose to study this entire chapter before continuing on to the rest of the text or, instead, go directly to Chapter 3

and refer back to the relevant sections when needed. In particular, Sections 2.2 through 2.6 are necessary background for the main physics in Chapters 3, 4, 5, and 7 through 10. Sections 2.7 and 2.8 are helpful for understanding the computer science examples in those chapters and in Chapters 6, 8, 11, and 16. Section 2.9 is helpful background for Chapter 14 on lasers.