Matrices and tensors in physics
By: A. W. Joshi.
Publisher: Wiley
Published: 1975
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
Subjects: Matrices.; Calculus of tensors.; Mathematical physics.
Description: This updated edition contains a good deal of new and relevant material including Bessel inequality, vector spaces of functions, physical laws and invariance principle, invariance in 3-D Newtonian and 4-D Minkowski spaces, fully antisymmetric tensors and their contraction. Discusses normal matrices and features a proof of the general theorem that a matrix possesses a complete set of orthonormal eigenvectors if and only if it is a normal matrix.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
"A Halsted Press book."