Classical treatment of tensors
Classical treatment of tensors The following is a component-based "classical" treatment of tensors. See Component-free treatment ...
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Talk:Intermediate treatment of tensors
Talk:Intermediate treatment of tensors This page has bee stolen by http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Tensor-classical - is there anything the wikipedia community can ... that tensor are always transformation (i.e. classical mass: tensor of rank(0/0); how ... of vector and matrices. Then explain that tensors allow to express physical laws in ...
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Intermediate treatment of tensors
Intermediate treatment of tensors Note: The following is a modern component-based treatment of tensors (sometimes called the "classical treatment" of tensors). Read the article ...
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Category:Tensors
Category:Tensors In mathematics, a tensor is a certain ... independent of any chosen frame of reference. Tensors are of importance in pure and applied ... to this category. D Differential forms T Tensors in general relativity Pages in category "Tensors" There are 47 pages in this section ... physics Axiality and rhombicity C Characteristic polynomial Classical treatment of tensors Contortion tensor Covariance ...
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Talk:Tensor/Archive1
... m very convinced that both treatments of tensors should be included. Why not? The modern ... stay, because hey, it's the modern treatment. However the classical treatment should also remain, because 1. it's very difficult to learn the modern treatment without first learning the modern treatment. ...
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Tensor
... of scalars, vectors, matrices and linear operators. Tensors may be written down in terms of ... non-technical introduction to the idea of tensors, and to provide an introduction to the ... different, complementary treatments of the theory of tensors in detail. Brief overview Depending on what ... 4 is just the transform for usual tensors. It can be deduced from the above ... a 3 dimensional matrix. Importance and usage Tensors are of importance in physics and ...
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Mathematics of general relativity
... relativity Notational point: General relativity articles using tensors will use the abstract index notation . The ... Cosmology Special relativity Riemannian geometry edit Why tensors? The principle of general covariance states that ... relativity be formulated using the language of tensors. This will be discussed further below. Spacetime ... Other physical descriptors are represented by various tensors, discussed below. The rationale for choosing a ... structure is important, especially in cosmological problems. Tensors in GR For details on tensors, ...
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Talk:Tensor (intrinsic definition)
... b) calling things 'modern' - unlike calling things classical, which is fair enough? Charles Matthews 09 ... name would be suitable? Tensor (differential geometry treatment) ? Tensor (component-free treatment) ? something else? -- The Anome 22:44, 12 ... is better, except that even the component-treatment is differential geometry... I don't quite ... please. This is the old argument (for tensors here) that you have to introduce ...
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Talk:Mathematics of general relativity/Archive 1
... transformations Position vectors, scalar derivatives, etc. are tensors because they transform properly Christoffel symbols do ... not transform properly and so are not tensors in GR even though they are expressed ... using the tensor calculus syntax. Describe metric tensors and how they describe the shape of ... x_\mu). Describe important rank-2 tensors: The EM field tensor The stress-energy tensor Breifly describe curvature tensors. Describe the connections and their use ...
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Talk:Quantum mechanics
... and much more accurate than those of classical mechanic" First, it's not just small ... it provides a more accurate theroy than classical mech, it's that classical mech. doesn't provide ANY theory that ... makes quantum mechanics apply. Some atoms are classical, and some macroscopic systems are quantum. So ... it depends on the level of accuracy. Classical mechanics includes many things besides Newtonian ...
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