Vector and Tensor Analysis

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Wiley, 1947 - 439 páginas
 

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Centroid
20
Barycentric Coordinates
23
Projection of a Vector
24
Base Vectors
25
Rectangular Components
28
Products of Two Vectors
29
Scalar Product
31
Vector Product
35
Vector Areas
38
Vector Triple Product
40
Scalar Triple Product
42
Products of Four Vectors
43
Plane Trigonometry
44
Spherical Trigonometry
45
Reciprocal Bases
47
Components of a Vector
49
Vector Equations
50
ARTICLE
51
Homogeneous Coordinates
52
Line Vectors and Moments
55
Vector Algebra
57
Problems
59
Dual Vectors
63
Dual Numbers
64
Motors
66
Motor
67
Scalar Product
69
Motor Product
70
Dual Triple Product
72
Motor Identities
73
Reciprocal Sets of Motors
74
CHAPTER II
75
MOTOR ALGEBRA
76
Statics
77
Null System
79
Motor Algebra
81
Problems PAGE C8 R N P N R R ZI 67 68 70 72 73 74 75 78 80
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CHAPTER III
84
Derivatives of Sums and Products
87
1 3 5
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Unit Tangent Vector
91
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12
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Fundamental Theorem
97
Osculating Plane
98
Center of Curvature
99
Plane Curves
101
Helices
106
Kinematics of a Particle
109
Relative Velocity
111
Kinematics of a Rigid Body
115
Composition of Velocities
120
Rate of Change of a Vector
121
Theorem of Coriolis
125
Derivative of a Motor
127
Vector Derivatives
129
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CHAPTER IV
135
Dyadics
137
Affine Point Transformation
138
Complete and Singular Dyadics
139
Conjugate Dyadics
141
Product of Dyadics
143
Idemfactor and Reciprocal
145
The Dyadic v
147
Further Invariants
149
ARTICLE PAGE 70 Second and Adjoint Dyadic
151
Invariant Directions
153
Symmetric Dyadics
156
The HamiltonCayley Equation
160
Normal Form of the General Dyadic
162
Rotations and Reflections
164
Basic Dyads
166
Nonion Form
167
Matric Algebra
169
Differentiation of Dyadics
171
Triadics
172
Problems
174
26
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CHAPTER V
178
Gradient of a Vector
181
Divergence and Rotation
183
Differentiation Formulas
186
Gradient of a Tensor
187
Functional Dependence
190
Curvilinear Coordinates
191
Orthogonal Coordinates
194
Total Differential
197
Irrotational Vectors
198
Solenoidal Vectors
201
Surfaces
203
Reduction of Surface to Line Integrals
218
Alternative Form of Transformation
221
Line Integrals
222
Line Integrals on a Surface
224
Field Lines of a Vector
226
Pfaffs Problem
230
Reduction of Volume to Surface Integrals
233
Solid Angle
236
ARTICLE PAGE 108 Greens Identities
237
Harmonic Functions
239
Electric Point Charges
241
Surface Charges
242
Doublets and Double Layers
243
Space Charges
245
Heat Conduction
247
Integral Transformations
248
Problems
250
CHAPTER VII
253
Equilibrium of a Deformable Body
255
Equilibrium of a Fluid
257
Equation of Continuity
258
Eulerian Equation for a Fluid in Motion
260
Vorticity
262
Lagrangian Equation of Motion
263
Flow and Circulation
266
Irrotational Motion
267
Steady Motion
268
Plane Motion
270
KuttaJoukowsky Formulas
273
Hydrodynamics
278
Problems
280
CHAPTER VIII
283
The Dyadic Vn
285
Fundamental Forms
289
Field of Curves
293
Geodesics
297
Geodesic Field
299
Equations of Codazzi and Gauss
300
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139
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Bonnets Integral Formula
308
141
313
142
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Minimal Surfaces
316
144
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Problems
321
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TENSOR ANALYSIS ARTICLE PAGE 145 The Summation Convention
328
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147
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Orthogonal Transformations
336
Quadratic Forms
337
The Metric
339
The Affine Group
340
Dyadics
342
Absolute Tensors
343
Relative Tensors
345
General Transformations
346
Permutation Tensor
350
Symmetry and Antisymmetry
352
Kronecker Deltas
353
Vector Algebra in Index Notation
354
The Affine Connection
356
Kinematics of a Particle
359
Derivatives of e¹ and E
360
Relation between Affine Connection and Metric Tensor
361
Covariant Derivative
362
Rules of Covariant Differentiation
365
Riemannian Geometry
366
Dual of a Tensor
370
Divergence
371
Stokes Tensor
372
Curl
374
Relation between Divergence and Curl
376
Curvature Tensor
380
Identities of Ricci and Bianchi
384
Euclidean Geometry
385
Surface Geometry in Tensor Notation
388
Tensor Analysis
392
Problems
396
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CHAPTER X
403
Conjugate and Norm
406
Division of Quaternions
409
ARTICLE PAGE
410
Rotations
417
Quaternion Algebra
426
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