A Brief on Tensor Analysis

James G. Simmonds

ISBN 10: 038794088X / ISBN 13: 9780387940885

Verlag: Springer New York, Springer US, 1993

Beschreibung

Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - There are three changes in the second edition. First, with the help of readers and colleagues-thanks to all-I have corrected typographical errors and made minor changes in substance and style. Second, I have added a fewmore Exercises,especially at the end ofChapter4.Third, I have appended a section on Differential Geometry, the essential mathematical tool in the study of two-dimensional structural shells and four-dimensional general relativity. JAMES G. SIMMONDS vii Preface to the First Edition When I was an undergraduate, working as a co-op student at North Ameri can Aviation, I tried to learn something about tensors. In the Aeronautical Engineering Department at MIT, I had just finished an introductory course in classical mechanics that so impressed me that to this day I cannot watch a plane in flight-especially in a turn-without imaging it bristling with vec tors. Near the end of the course the professor showed that, if an airplane is treated as a rigid body, there arises a mysterious collection of rather simple looking integrals called the components of the moment of inertia tensor.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Brief on Tensor Analysis
• Verlag: Springer New York, Springer US
• Veröffentlichungsdatum: 1993
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 038794088X
• ISBN-13: 9780387940885
• Bindung: Buch
• Ausgabe: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

In this text which gradually develops the tools for formulating and manipulating the field equations of Continuum Mechanics, the mathematics of tensor analysis is introduced in four, well-separated stages, and the physical interpretation and application of vectors and tensors are stressed throughout. This new edition contains more exercises. In addition, the author has appended a section on Differential Geometry.