Tensor Analysis and Elementary Differential Geometry for Physicists and Engineers

• Main Authors: Nguyen-Schäfer, Hung (Author), Schmidt, Jan-Philip (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2017.
• Series: Mathematical Engineering,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computer mathematics.; Differential geometry.; Physics.; Fluid mechanics.; Engineering Fluid Dynamics.; Computational Science and Engineering.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Differential Geometry.

This book comprehensively presents topics, such as Dirac notation, tensor analysis, elementary differential geometry of moving surfaces, and k-differential forms. Additionally, two new chapters of Cartan differential forms and Dirac and tensor notations in quantum mechanics are added to this second...