By Bernard Maxum
As photonics and fabrics technological know-how span new horizons, it's paramount that one's mathematical talents be honed. the first aim of this publication is to provide a assessment of vector calculus wanted for the actual sciences and engineering. This evaluate contains helpful tours into tensor research meant because the reader's first publicity to tensors, making elements of tensors comprehensible on the undergraduate point. A secondary aim of this booklet is to arrange the reader for extra complex experiences in those areas.
Contents
- record of Examples and Applications
- record of Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Vector Algebra Review
- straightforward Tensor Analysis
- Vector Calculus Differential Forms
- Vector Calculus crucial Forms
- Appendix A: Vector Arithmetics and Applications
- Appendix B: Vector Calculus in Orthogonal Coordinate Systems
- Appendix C: Intermediate Tensor Calculus in aid of Chapters three and 4
- Appendix D: Coordinate Expansions of Vector Differential Operators
- Glossary
- Index
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In many texts, lowercase vowels a, e, i, or u are reserved for unit vectors. In Eq. 1-1), “ a ” is used in contrast as a full vector with all three components, a x , a y , and az . 8–10 Thus, by using the overbar exclusively for vectors of general magnitude and the “u-hat” for unit vectors, the door is open for multiple overmarkings to denote dyadics and other tensors. Another vector having a magnitude A will contain the overbar as before and, if expanded in generalized coordinates, is written as * The word single is emphasized here because vectors are not the only quantities that have direction.
Such quantities in general are called tensors, as stated earlier. Various authors use a variety of notational techniques for denoting tensors. One of the most common is the multiple-subscript method called tensor notation. Tensor notation has a great deal of utility in that it explicitly allows for the proper ordering of tensor components in performing various operations, such as single or multiple dot-, cross-, or direct-product operations. Therefore, tensor notation is the preferred formulation whenever these operations are important to the development at hand.
Although junior-level (third-year) engineering or physics students have not necessarily been required to take a formal course in tensor analysis, they frequently have been exposed to quantities that have multiple directionality, often without being told so. However, in recent years more attention is being devoted to dyadics and other tensors because of the recognition of their importance, even at this level. Example 1: piezoelectric transducers and other crystalline materials In the study of anisotropic dielectrics, the dielectric properties cannot be fully described without the use of dyadics.
