Matrices and Tensors in Physics

Joshi, A. W.

ISBN 10: 0470234385 / ISBN 13: 9780470234389

Published by Wiley-Interscience, 1995

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Matrices and Tensors in Physics
• Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470234385
• ISBN 13: 9780470234389
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This updated edition contains a good deal of new and relevant material including Bessel inequality, vector spaces of functions, physical laws and invariance principle, invariance in 3-D Newtonian and 4-D Minkowski spaces, fully antisymmetric tensors and their contraction. Discusses normal matrices and features a proof of the general theorem that a matrix posesses a complete set of orthonormal eigenvectors if and only if it is a normal matrix. Over 200 exercises and 100+ solved problems help students grasp the concepts presented.

About the Author

A.W. Joshi is a professor of physics at the University of Poona. He received his Ph.D from the same university in 1967, for which he worked at the National Chemical Laboratory in Pune. He then worked at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, H H Wills Physics Laboratory, University of Bristol, UK, Meerut University, Himachal Pradesh University, Shimla and moved to University of Poona in 1984. He has published about 100 popular, semipopular, research, educational and social articles in newspapers, magazines and journals, including popular science articles in Indian languages. He has written two other books and edited one.