A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors

A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors - Student's Guides

Paperback (22 Sep 2011)

Save $1.88

  • RRP $32.05
  • $30.17
Add to basket

Includes delivery to the United States

10+ copies available online - Usually dispatched within 2-3 weeks

free Reserve & collect

Copies available at Blackwell's Oxford Broad Street

Reserve in Store |  Check stock elsewhere

Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780521171908
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 530.15563
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 197
Weight: 340g
Height: 227mm
Width: 153mm
Spine width: 10mm