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Tensors for Physics (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
Siegfried Hess
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Description for Tensors for Physics (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
Paperback. Tensors for Physics Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Num Pages: 440 pages, 55 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBK; PBWH; PHU. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 712.
This book presents the science of tensors in a didactic way. The various types and ranks of tensors and the physical basis is presented. Cartesian Tensors are needed for the description of directional phenomena in many branches of physics and for the characterization the anisotropy of material properties. The first sections of the book provide an introduction to the vector and tensor algebra and analysis, with applications to physics, at undergraduate level. Second rank tensors, in particular their symmetries, are discussed in detail. Differentiation and integration of fields, including generalizations of the Stokes law and the Gauss theorem, are treated. The ... Read more
This book presents the science of tensors in a didactic way. The various types and ranks of tensors and the physical basis is presented. Cartesian Tensors are needed for the description of directional phenomena in many branches of physics and for the characterization the anisotropy of material properties. The first sections of the book provide an introduction to the vector and tensor algebra and analysis, with applications to physics, at undergraduate level. Second rank tensors, in particular their symmetries, are discussed in detail. Differentiation and integration of fields, including generalizations of the Stokes law and the Gauss theorem, are treated. The ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer
Condition
New
Series
Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
Number of Pages
440
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319127866
SKU
V9783319127866
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Ref
99-15
About Siegfried Hess
Siegfried Hess studied Mathematics and Physics at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, was a graduate student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA and got his PhD in Physics in Erlangen in 1967. He was postdoc at the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory of the University Leiden, Holland and made his habilitation in Physics in Erlangen, 1970. Later, he became professor ... Read more
Reviews for Tensors for Physics (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics)
“This book is devoted to a thorough didactic presentation of tensors, which play an important role in Physics in order to describe anisotropic phenomena and their orientational behavior. … This volume is very well written and it can be a valuable support to researchers and graduate students in mathematical physics, applied nonlinear analysis and other applied sciences.” (Teodora-Liliana Rădulescu, zbMATH ... Read more