Description: Tensors for Physics Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Author(s): Siegfried Hess Format: Paperback Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG ISBN-13: 9783319127866, 978-3319127866 Synopsis 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 physics relevant for the applications in mechanics, quantum mechanics, electrodynamics and hydrodynamics is presented. The second part of the book is devoted to tensors of any rank, at graduate level. Special topics are irreducible, [url] symmetric traceless tensors, isotropic tensors, multipole potential tensors, spin tensors, integration and spin-trace formulas, coupling of irreducible tensors, rotation of tensors. Constitutive laws for optical, elastic and viscous properties of anisotropic media are dealt with. The anisotropic media include crystals, liquid crystals and isotropic fluids, rendered anisotropic by external orienting fields. The dynamics of tensors deals with phenomena of current research. In the last section, the 3D Maxwell equations are reformulated in their 4D version, in accord with special relativity.
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Book Title: Tensors for Physics
Item Height: 235 mm
Item Width: 155 mm
Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
Author: Siegfried Hess
Publication Name: Tensors for Physics
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Springer International Publishing A&G
Subject: Engineering & Technology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 6905 g
Number of Pages: 440 Pages
