A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors - Softcover

Daniel Fleisch

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107608686 ISBN 13: 9781107608689

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Vectors and tensors are among the most powerful problem-solving tools available, with applications ranging from mechanics and electromagnetic to general relativity. Understanding the nature and application of vectors and tensors is critically important to students of physics and engineering. 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. Written for undergraduate and beginning graduate students, the book provides a thorough grounding in vectors and vector calculus before transitioning through contra and covariant components to tensors and their applications. Matrices and their algebra are reviewed on the book's supporting website, which also features interactive solutions to every problem in the text where students can work through a series of hints or choose to see the entire solution at once. Audio podcasts give students the opportunity to hear important concepts in the book explained by the author.

About this title

Book Description

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.

About the Author

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).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107608686
• ISBN 13: 9781107608689
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 208