A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors

Vectors and tensors are among the most powerful problem-solving tools available, with applications ranging from mechanics and electromagnetics to general relativity. Understanding the nature and application of vectors and tensors is critically important to students of physics and engineering. Adopting the same approach used in his highly popular A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations, Fleisch explains vectors and tensors in plain language. Written for undergraduate and beginning graduate students, the book provides a thorough grounding in vectors and vector calculus before transitioning through contra and covariant components to tensors and their applications. Matrices and their algebra are reviewed on the book's supporting website, which also features interactive solutions to every problem in the text where students can work through a series of hints or choose to see the entire solution at once. Audio podcasts give students the opportunity to hear important concepts in the book explained by the author.





Author: Daniel A. Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 11/14/2011
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780521193696

Review Citation(s):
Choice 07/01/2012

About the Author
Fleisch, Daniel A.: - Daniel Fleisch is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at Wittenberg University, where he specializes in electromagnetics and space physics. He is the author of A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations (Cambridge University Press, 2008).