Schaums Outline of Tensor Calculus,9780071756037

Schaums Outline of Tensor Calculus

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780071756037
ISBN10: 0071756035
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-02-11
Publisher(s): McGraw Hill
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This is a very useful textbook for those one who want to learn tensor calculus with a lot of applications of Relativity. It explains everything, even the simplest things in an easy way. This textbook is the best in this sense. The explanation and statement are very clear. A typically classic tensor textbook!


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Table of Contents

1. The Einstein Summation Convention. 2. Basic Linear Algebra for Tensors. 3. General Tensors. 4. Tensor Operations. 5. Tests for Tensor Character. 6. The Metric Tensor. 7. The Derivative of a Tensor. 8. Further Riemannian Geometry. 9. Riemannian Curvature. 10. Spaces of Zero Curvature. 11. Tensors in Differential Geometry. 12. Tensors in Mechanics. 13. Tensors in Special Relativity. 14. Tensors Without Coordinates. 15. Introduction to Tensor Manifolds.

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