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The Geometry of Physics: An Introduction

By Theodore Frankel

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
1107602602, 9781107602601
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6562677 bytes)
Edition
3
Pages
748\749
Topic
Physics
Time added
2015-05-01 19:07:48
Физика;Матметоды и моделирование в физике

Description

This book provides a working knowledge of those parts of exterior differential forms, differential geometry, algebraic and differential topology, Lie groups, vector bundles, and Chern forms that are helpful for a deeper understanding of both classical and modern physics and engineering. It is ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of physics, engineering or mathematics as a course text or for self study.A main addition introduced in this Third Edition is the inclusion of an Overview, which can be read before starting the text. This appears at the beginning of the text, before Chapter 1. Many of the geometric concepts developed in the text are previewed here and these are illustrated by their applications to a single extended problem in engineering, namely the study of the Cauchy stresses created by a small twist of an elastic cylindrical rod about its axis.

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