There are three changes in the second edition. First, with the help of readers and colleagues-thanks to all-I have corrected typographical errors and made minor changes in substance and style. Second, I have added a fewmore Exercises,especially at the end ofChapter4.Third, I have appended a section on Differential Geometry, the essential mathematical tool in the study of two-dimensional structural shells and four-dimensional general relativity. JAMES G. SIMMONDS vii Preface to the First Edition When I was an undergraduate, working as a co-op student at North Ameri- can Aviation, I tried to learn something about tensors. In the Aeronautical Engineering Department at MIT, I had just finished an introductory course in classical mechanics that so impressed me that to this day I cannot watch a plane in flight-especially in a turn-without imaging it bristling with vec- tors. Near the end of the course the professor showed that, if an airplane is treated as a rigid body, there arises a mysterious collection of rather simple- looking integrals called the components of the moment of inertia tensor.
| ISBN: | 9780387940885 |
| Publication date: | 1st August 1997 |
| Author: | James G Simmonds |
| Publisher: | Springer an imprint of Springer New York |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 114 pages |
| Series: | Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics |
| Genres: |
Calculus and mathematical analysis |
There are three changes in the second edition. First, with the help of readers and colleagues-thanks to all-I have corrected typographical errors and made minor changes in substance and style. Second, I have added a fewmore Exercises,especially at the end ofChapter4.Third, I have appended a section on Differential Geometry, the essential mathematical tool in the study of two-dimensional structural shells and four-dimensional general relativity. JAMES G. SIMMONDS vii Preface to the First Edition When I was an undergraduate, working as a co-op student at North Ameri- can Aviation, I tried to learn something about tensors. In the Aeronautical Engineering Department at MIT, I had just finished an introductory course in classical mechanics that so impressed me that to this day I cannot watch a plane in flight-especially in a turn-without imaging it bristling with vec- tors. Near the end of the course the professor showed that, if an airplane is treated as a rigid body, there arises a mysterious collection of rather simple- looking integrals called the components of the moment of inertia tensor.
A Brief on Tensor Analysis features in the following genres: Calculus and mathematical analysis
A Brief on Tensor Analysis is available in Hardback
A Brief on Tensor Analysis was written by James G Simmonds and published by Springer an imprint of Springer New York
A Brief on Tensor Analysis has 114 pages
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