A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors

Author: Daniel A. Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521171908
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
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.

A Student's Guide to the Mathematics of Astronomy

Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107034949
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Plain-language explanations and a rich set of supporting material help students understand the mathematical concepts and techniques of astronomy.

A Student's Guide to Maxwell's Equations

Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139468472
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
Gauss's law for electric fields, Gauss's law for magnetic fields, Faraday's law, and the Ampere–Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwell's equations may be combined to produce the wave equation, the basis for the electromagnetic theory of light. This book is a wonderful resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in electromagnetism and electromagnetics. A website hosted by the author at www.cambridge.org/9780521701471 contains interactive solutions to every problem in the text as well as audio podcasts to walk students through each chapter.

A Student's Guide to the Schrödinger Equation

Author: Daniel A. Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834736
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
A clear guide to the key concepts and mathematical techniques underlying the Schrödinger equation, including homework problems and fully worked solutions.

A Student's Guide to Waves

Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107054869
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
Written to complement course textbooks, this book focuses on the topics that undergraduates in physics and engineering find most difficult.

Vector and Tensor Analysis with Applications

Author: A. I. Borisenko
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486131904
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description
Concise, readable text ranges from definition of vectors and discussion of algebraic operations on vectors to the concept of tensor and algebraic operations on tensors. Worked-out problems and solutions. 1968 edition.

A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors

Author: Daniel A. Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139503944
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Tensor Calculus for Physics

Author: Dwight E. Neuenschwander
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142141564X
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
It is an ideal companion for courses such as mathematical methods of physics, classical mechanics, electricity and magnetism, and relativity.--Gary White, editor of The Physics Teacher "American Journal of Physics"

A Student's Guide to Laplace Transforms

Author: Daniel Fleisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009098497
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 221

Book Description
Clear explanations and supportive online material develop an intuitive understanding of the meaning and use of Laplace.

A Student's Guide to Newton's Laws of Motion

Author: Sanjoy Mahajan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108471145
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Master Newton's laws of motion, the basis of modern science and engineering, with this intuitive and accessible text.