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Shapiro, Ilya L.

A primer in tensor analysis and relativity

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A primer in tensor analysis and relativityby Ilya L. Shapiro.
Author:	Shapiro, Ilya L.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019.
Description:	xviii, 324 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Tensor algebra.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26895-4
ISBN:	9783030268954$q(electronic bk.)

A primer in tensor analysis and relativity
Shapiro, Ilya L.

A primer in tensor analysis and relativity[electronic resource] /by Ilya L. Shapiro. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2019. - xviii, 324 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Undergraduate lecture notes in physics,2192-4791. - Undergraduate lecture notes in physics..

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I: Tensor Algebra and Analysis -- 1: Linear spaces, vectors and tensors -- 2: Operations over tensors, metric tensor -- 3: Symmetric, skew(anti) symmetric tensors and determinants -- 4: Curvilinear coordinates, local coordinate transformations -- 5: Derivatives of tensors, covariant derivates -- 6: Grad, div, rot and relations between them -- 7: Grad, div, rot and in cylindric and spherical coordinates -- 8: Curvilinear, surface and D-dimensional integrals -- 9: Theorems of Green, Stokes and Gauss -- 10: Solutions to the exercises from Part 1 -- Part II: Elements of Electrodynamics and Special Relativity -- 11 Maxwell equations and Lorentz transformations -- 12 Laws of relativistic mechanics -- 13 Maxwell equations in relativistic form -- Part III Applications to General Relativity -- 14 Equivalence principle, covariance and curvature tensor -- 15 Einstein equations, Schwarzschild solution and gravitational waves -- 16 Basic elements of cosmology -- 17 Special sections -- Index.

This undergraduate textbook provides a simple, concise introduction to tensor algebra and analysis, as well as special and general relativity. With a plethora of examples, explanations, and exercises, it forms a well-rounded didactic text that will be useful for any related course. The book is divided into three main parts, all based on lecture notes that have been refined for classroom teaching over the past two decades. Part I provides students with a comprehensive overview of tensors. Part II links the very introductory first part and the relatively advanced third part, demonstrating the important intermediate-level applications of tensor analysis. Part III contains an extended discussion of general relativity, and includes material useful for students interested primarily in quantum field theory and quantum gravity. Tailored to the undergraduate, this textbook offers explanations of technical material not easily found or detailed elsewhere, including an understandable description of Riemann normal coordinates and conformal transformations. Future theoretical and experimental physicists, as well as mathematicians, will thus find it a wonderful first read on the subject.

ISBN: 9783030268954$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-26895-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

348467
Tensor algebra.

LC Class. No.: QC20.7.C28 / S53 2019

Dewey Class. No.: 515.63

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