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Half-title......Page 3 Title......Page 5 Copyright......Page 6 Contents......Page 7 The Central Thrust of This Book......Page 21 For Whom Is This Book Meant?......Page 22 Our Debt......Page 23 Part I: Vector and tensor algebra......Page 25 1.1 Inner Product. Cross Product......Page 27 1.3 Summation Convention. Components of a Vector and a Point......Page 30 2.1 What Is a Tensor?......Page 33 2.2 Zero and Identity Tensors. Tensor Product of Two Vectors. Projection Tensor. Spherical Tensor......Page 34 2.3 Components of a Tensor......Page 35 2.4 Transpose of a Tensor. Symmetric and Skew Tensors......Page 36 2.5 Product of Tensors......Page 37 2.6 Vector Cross. Axial Vector of a Skew Tensor......Page 39 2.7 Trace of a Tensor. Deviatoric Tensors......Page 40 2.8 Inner Product of Tensors. Magnitude of a Tensor......Page 41 2.9 Invertible Tensors......Page 43 2.9.1 Proof of (‡)......Page 44 2.10 Determinant of a Tensor......Page 45 2.11 Cofactor of a Tensor......Page 46 2.12 Orthogonal Tensors......Page 49 2.13 Matrix of a Tensor......Page 50 2.14 Eigenvalues and Eigenvectors of a Tensor. Spectral Theorem......Page 52 2.15 Square Root of a Symmetric, Positive-Definite Tensor. Polar Decom
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- Author
- Gurtin, Morton E.; Fried, Eliot; Anand, Lallit
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511762956
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Mathematics, Physics
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (17 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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