Daniel A. Fleisch (Ohio Wittenberg University)

A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Adopting the same approach used in his highly popular A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations, Fleisch explains vectors and tensors in plain language to give undergraduate and beginning graduate students a better understanding of how to use vectors and tensors to solve problems in physics and engineering.

Produktdetails

• Student's Guides
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780521171908
• ISBN-10: 0521171903
• Artikelnr.: 33444565

Autorenporträt

Daniel Fleisch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Wittenberg University, where he specializes in electromagnetics and space physics. He is the author of A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Vectors; 2. Vector operations; 3. Vector applications; 4. Covariant and contravariant vector components; 5. Higher-rank tensors; 6. Tensor applications; Index.

Rezensionen

'This is both helpful and innovative ... Fleisch's book is an excellent and challenging resource for students in this subject area.' Optics and Photonics News