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A Brief on Tensor Analysis Softcover Repri Edition
Contributor(s): Simmonds, James G. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1461264243     ISBN-13: 9781461264248
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE: $52.20  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2012
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BISAC Categories:
- Mathematics | Mathematical Analysis
- Mathematics | Calculus
Dewey: 515
Series: Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics
Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" L (0.43 lbs) 114 pages
 
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There are three changes in the second edition. First, with the help of readers and colleagues-thanks to all-I have corrected typographical errors and made minor changes in substance and style. Second, I have added a fewmore Exercises, especially at the end ofChapter4.Third, I have appended a section on Differential Geometry, the essential mathematical tool in the study of two-dimensional structural shells and four-dimensional general relativity. JAMES G. SIMMONDS vii Preface to the First Edition When I was an undergraduate, working as a co-op student at North Ameri- can Aviation, I tried to learn something about tensors. In the Aeronautical Engineering Department at MIT, I had just finished an introductory course in classical mechanics that so impressed me that to this day I cannot watch a plane in flight-especially in a turn-without imaging it bristling with vec- tors. Near the end of the course the professor showed that, if an airplane is treated as a rigid body, there arises a mysterious collection of rather simple- looking integrals called the components of the moment of inertia tensor.
 
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