A Brief on Tensor Analysis (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics).

Simmonds, J.G.:

ISBN 10: 0387906398 / ISBN 13: 9780387906393

Editore: Berlin: Springer, 1982

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Zust: Gutes Exemplar. 92 Seiten Englisch 326g.

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• Titolo: A Brief on Tensor Analysis (Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics).
• Editore: Berlin: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1982
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387906398
• ISBN 13: 9780387906393
• Rilegatura: Karton
• Edizione: seconda edizione
• Condizione: Sehr gut
• Peso: 326 grammi
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Mathematik

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When I was an undergraduate, working as a co-op student at North American Aviation, I tried to learn something about tensors. In the Aeronautical En­ gineering 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 tum-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. Tensor-what power those two syllables seemed to resonate. I had heard the word once before, in an aside by a graduate instructor to the cognoscenti in the front row of a course in strength of materials. "What the book calls stress is actually a tensor. . . ." With my interest twice piqued and with time off from fighting the brush­ fires of a demanding curriculum, I was ready for my first serious effort at self­ instruction. In Los Angeles, after several tries, I found a store with a book on tensor analysis. In my mind I had rehearsed the scene in which a graduate stu­ dent or professor, spying me there, would shout, "You're an undergraduate.

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Book by Simmonds James G