Elements for Physics: Quantities, Qualities, And Intrinsic Theories

Tarantola, Albert

ISBN 10: 3540253025 / ISBN 13: 9783540253020

Verlag: Springer Verlag, 2005

Beschreibung

1st edition. 263 pages. German language. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers x-3540253025

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Elements for Physics: Quantities, Qualities, And Intrinsic Theories
• Verlag: Springer Verlag
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3540253025
• ISBN-13: 9783540253020
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Brand New

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Reviews and extends the theory of Lie groups, develops differential geometry, proposing compact definitions of torsion and of curvature, and adapts the usual notion of linear tangent application to the intrinsic point of view proposed for physics.

 

Uses a unifying illustration: two simple theories are studied with some detail, the theory of heat conduction and the theory of linear elastic media.

 

Shows that the resulting equations derived in this manner differ quantitatively and qualitatively from those usually presented.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Professor at the University of Paris. Doctor Honoris Causa by the University of Copenhagen. Silver medal of the French National Science Foundation. Author of a well-known book on Inverse Problem Theory.