Tensor Analysis

Suitable for students and practicing engineers, this concise text provides a straightforward treatment of those formulas needed to describe objects in three-dimensional space.

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Chapter 1: Preliminaries

Chapter 2: Transformations and Vectors

Chapter 3: Tensors

Chapter 4: Tensor Fields

Chapter 5: Elements of Differential Geometry

5.2: The Torsion of a Curve

5.3: Serret-Frenet Equations

5.4: Elements of the Theory of Surfaces

5.5: The Second Fundamental Form of a Surface

5.6: Derivation Formulas

5.7: Implicit Representation of a Curve; Contact of Curves

5.8: Osculating Paraboloid

5.9: The Principal Curvatures of a Surface

5.10: Surfaces of Revolution

5.11: Natural Equations of a Curve

Appendix A: Formulary

Appendix B: Hints and Answers

Tensor Analysis

Tensor Analysis

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