Book Review: Singular perturbation in the physical sciences

Book Review: From the Physical to the Social Sciences

BOOK REVIEW The Foundations of Physical Law

Many physicists enter the profession because, often as children, they felt a burning curiosity about the world. They wanted to know why material objects behave as they do, what they are made of, and where everything came from. So they were drawn inexorably towards physics, the most basic science, as the the best place to seek answers. They will have found, however, that the answers only go just...

Book Review: The University Teaching of Social Sciences: Law

Singular perturbation theory

When we apply the steady-state approximation (SSA) in chemical kinetics, we typically argue that some of the intermediates are highly reactive, so that they are removed as fast as they are made. We then set the corresponding rates of change to zero. What we are saying is not that these rates are identically zero, of course, but that they are much smaller than the other rates of reaction. The st...

Geometric Singular Perturbation Theory