Introduction to Tensor Analysis

Introduction to Tensor Analysis

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1、IntroductiontoTensorCalculusandContinuumMechanicsbyJ.H.HeinbockelDepartmentofMathematicsandStatisticsOldDominionUniversityPREFACEThisisanintroductorytextwhichpresentsfundamentalconceptsfromthesubjectareasoftensorcalculus,di erentialgeometryandcontinuummechanics.Thematerialpresentedissuitableforatwos

2、emestercourseinappliedmathematicsandisflexibleenoughtobepresentedtoeitherupperlevelundergraduateorbeginninggraduatestudentsmajoringinappliedmathematics,engineeringorphysics.Thepresentationassumesthestudentshavesomeknowledgefromtheareasofmatrixtheory,linearalgebraandadvancedcalculus.Eachsectioninclude

3、smanyillustrativeworkedexamples.Attheendofeachsectionthereisalargecollectionofexerciseswhichrangeindiculty.Manynewideasarepresentedintheexercisesandsothestudentsshouldbeencouragedtoreadalltheexercises.Thepurposeofpreparingthesenotesistocondenseintoanintroductorytextthebasicde nitionsandtechniquesar

4、isingintensorcalculus,di erentialgeometryandcontinuummechanics.Inparticular,thematerialispresentedto(i)developaphysicalunderstandingofthemathematicalconceptsassociatedwithtensorcalculusand(ii)developthebasicequationsoftensorcalculus,di erentialgeometryandcontinuummechanicswhichariseinengineeringappl

5、ications.Fromthesebasicequationsonecangoontodevelopmoresophisticatedmodelsofappliedmathematics.Thematerialispresentedinaninformalmannerandusesmathematicswhichminimizesexcessiveformalism.Thematerialhasbeendividedintotwoparts.The rstpartdealswithanintroduc-tiontotensorcalculusanddi erentialgeometrywhi

6、chcoverssuchthingsastheindicialnotation,tensoralgebra,covariantdi erentiation,dualtensors,bilinearandmultilinearforms,specialtensors,theRiemannChristo eltensor,spacecurves,surfacecurves,cur-vatureandfundamentalquadraticforms.Thesecondpartemphasizestheapplicationoftensoralgebraandcalculustoawidevarie

7、tyofappliedareasfromengineeringandphysics.Theselectedapplicationsarefromtheareasofdynamics,elasticity,fluidsandelectromag-netictheory.Thecontinuummechanicsportionfocusesonanintroductionofthebasicconcep

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