Tensors for Physics

• Main Author: Hess, Siegfried (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Mathematical physics.; Amorphous substances.; Complex fluids.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.; Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics.; Physical Chemistry.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.

This book presents the science of tensors in a didactic way. The various types and ranks of tensors and the physical basis is presented. Cartesian Tensors are needed for the description of directional phenomena in many branches of physics and for the characterization the anisotropy of material prope...