Vectors and Tensors By Example: Including Cartesian Tensors, Quaternions, and Matlab Ex...
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Vectors and Tensors By Example: Including Cartesian Tensors, Quaternions, and Matlab Examples
Book Details
- Author
- Richard E Haskell
- Publisher
- CREATESPACE
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- Vector Analysis
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9781515153115
- ISBN-10
- 1515153118
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ISBN: 1515153118
Author: Haskell, Richard E
Condition: New
If you have been confused by vectors, vector calculus, tensor analysis, or quaternions, this book is for you. Packed with examples, including Matlab examples, this book will show you:How to use Matlab to calculate dot and cross products, and solve linear equations;How to prove any vector identity using Cartesian tensors;How to derive the expressions for gradient, divergence, Laplacian, and curl in any curvilinear coordinate system;How to understand covariant and contravariant components of a vector;The meaning of Christoffel symbols in covariant differentiation;How to derive the curvature tensor;How quaternions can be used to describe vector rotations in 3-D space.
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