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- catalog contributor b484322.
- catalog created "c1982.".
- catalog date "1982".
- catalog date "c1982.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1982.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 200.".
- catalog description "Special Principle of Relativity. Lorentz Transformations -- Newton's laws of motion -- Covariance of the laws of motion -- Special principle of relativity -- Lorentz transformations. Minkowski space--time -- The special Lorentz transformation -- Fitzgerald contraction. Time dilation -- Spacelike and timelike intervals. Light cone -- Orthogonal Transformations. Cartesian Tensors -- Orthogonal transformations -- Repeated-index summation convention -- Rectangular Cartesian tensors -- Invariants. Gradients. Derivatives of tensors -- Contraction. Scalar product. Divergence -- Pseudotensors -- Vector products. Curl -- Special Relativity Mechanics -- The velocity vector -- Mass and momentum -- The force vector. Energy -- Lorentz transformation equations for force -- Fundamental particles. Photon and neutrino -- Lagrange's and Hamilton's equations -- Energy--momentum tensor -- Energy--momentum tensor for a fluid -- Angular momentum -- Special Relativity Electrodynamics -- 4-Current density -- 4-Vector potential -- The field tensor -- Lorentz transformations of electric and magnetic vectors -- The Lorentz force -- The energy--momentum tensor for an electromagnetic field -- General Tensor Calculus. Riemannian Space -- Generalized N-dimensional spaces -- Contravariant and covariant tensors -- The quotient theorem. Conjugate tensors -- Covariant derivatives. Parallel displacement. Affine connection -- Transformation of an affinity -- Covariant derivatives of tensors -- The Riemann--Christoffel curvature tensor.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 205 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Introduction to tensor calculus, relativity, and cosmology.".
- catalog identifier "047110082X :".
- catalog identifier "047110096X (pbk.) :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Introduction to tensor calculus, relativity, and cosmology.".
- catalog issued "1982".
- catalog issued "c1982.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Chichester [Sussex] ; New York : Wiley,".
- catalog relation "Introduction to tensor calculus, relativity, and cosmology.".
- catalog subject "Calculus of tensors.".
- catalog subject "Cosmology.".
- catalog subject "QC173.55".
- catalog subject "Relativity (Physics)".
- catalog tableOfContents "Special Principle of Relativity. Lorentz Transformations -- Newton's laws of motion -- Covariance of the laws of motion -- Special principle of relativity -- Lorentz transformations. Minkowski space--time -- The special Lorentz transformation -- Fitzgerald contraction. Time dilation -- Spacelike and timelike intervals. Light cone -- Orthogonal Transformations. Cartesian Tensors -- Orthogonal transformations -- Repeated-index summation convention -- Rectangular Cartesian tensors -- Invariants. Gradients. Derivatives of tensors -- Contraction. Scalar product. Divergence -- Pseudotensors -- Vector products. Curl -- Special Relativity Mechanics -- The velocity vector -- Mass and momentum -- The force vector. Energy -- Lorentz transformation equations for force -- Fundamental particles. Photon and neutrino -- Lagrange's and Hamilton's equations -- Energy--momentum tensor -- Energy--momentum tensor for a fluid -- Angular momentum -- Special Relativity Electrodynamics -- 4-Current density -- 4-Vector potential -- The field tensor -- Lorentz transformations of electric and magnetic vectors -- The Lorentz force -- The energy--momentum tensor for an electromagnetic field -- General Tensor Calculus. Riemannian Space -- Generalized N-dimensional spaces -- Contravariant and covariant tensors -- The quotient theorem. Conjugate tensors -- Covariant derivatives. Parallel displacement. Affine connection -- Transformation of an affinity -- Covariant derivatives of tensors -- The Riemann--Christoffel curvature tensor.".
- catalog title "An introduction to tensor calculus, relativity, and cosmology / D.F. Lawden.".
- catalog type "text".