A Students Guide To Vectors And Tensors South Asian Edition

Great book for a first introduction to vectors. But an unbelievable book for the first introduction to tensors. if u want a true understanding of vectors and coordinate systems, I recommend Linear algebra or Multivariable calc ( and you are a physics student, why not go through Griffiths ). Now the best part of the book the tensors, by far one of the best books on introduction to tensors, I've read and gives you concrete and proper reasons(not mathematically concrete so be sure to have some good linear algebra and multivariable under your belt before tensor calc) on why things are the way they are by engagement. At the same time, the statement is being stated, Satisfaction of the statement by working out a real example. This book is not a self-constrained book, you will not master or learn tensor calculus, but this will help in more than a major way to leapfrog you to the next stage. other tensor books like Schaum's or synge will be required

Can't say value for money..price is a little bit high ..but yeah..it's a 200 pages book..and probably best for this topic..very lucid and clear language and explainetion..just go for it

This is a very nice book on vectors and tensors. Anyone who wants to learn vectors and tensors may refer this book. The only problem is that this book does not contain much mathematics.

The best book I have ever read in my life. The book takes one smoothly and seamlessly into the realm of Special and General Relativity with elegance of real life experience.

Nice book to read. I had started reading it yesterday and it seems that I will end it very soon. The language is very fluent and easy to understand.

Best for B. Sc.

So you are learning GR ? very good ! Good luck understanding GR.

Develops as an extension of vector. Easy to grasp.

An EXCELLENT book! Let me put this up front so it doesn't get missed. You MUST download the errata sheet on the website given in the book. There are enough typos and errors to make a few sections hard to follow, but it does not detract from the quality. The errata sheet will however clear up some math issues. Did I mention it is an excellent book?! I've owned this since 2018...it is very dog eared now. Have read it multiple times, each time I get better insight into Tensors (including vectors!) and vector calculus. It is an excellent book for engineers, mathematicians, physicists, etc. If you have a fair to good foundation of algebra, vectors, vector calculus, calculus and differential equations, then you'll do fine (as I have the math background, but was very stale with it, I did some review and it helped). If not, the book will be good to get a conceptual level understanding of tensors, but the math will be hard to follow. Let me also recommend Professor Fleisch's companion book, ASG to Maxwell's equations. Written in the same easy to read style. If you want to read that book, I'd recommend buying this book too, as it goes into better background on the underlying math and that helped me a lot reading ASG to Maxwell's equations. Hope this helps. Happy reading!

Es el mejor libro por ahora que razona el fundamento y la utilidad de los tensores de la manera mas clara que por ahora he leido. Lo recomiendo sin duda alguan

Muito bom. Atual e com um linguagem simples. Muito útil no estudo da engenharia e outra s áreas que utilizam vetores e tensores.

* Physical This paperback book is well bound, and has a useful size of font related to the size of the page. If your wear specs, you may find its well chosen size of fonts pleasing to the reader. * Target Audience, A -level, H.N.D, Undergraduate, Post Grad? From the back of this book its for '...undergraduate and beginning graduate students'. Its covering Mechanics, electromagnetics and general relativity topics. To be honest, i initially thought that this thin book, as I started reading, was going to be too basic. Its more designed as a concise reminder of Vectors rather than learning Vectors afresh. Going as it does through Mechanics using Grad, Div, Curl, three - dimensional dot and cross products from scratch. Partial derivatives are particularly well explained earlier on with series of diagrams, in particular Fig 2.11 (a), (b), page 45, and Fig 2.15, (a), (b) page 52. And also a great and deep help is the matrix 4.44 on page 122 of the summation superposition of the three dimensional gradients in a three-by-three matrix when related to pages 142-146. But its part of ingenious design to fill - in the assumed knowledge and build upon it. And this it does brilliantly well. As the book expands into more advanced material topics, the requirement to use stricter mathematical precision in its explaining is noticed. As an example, the study of electromagnetic fields and its requirement to need vector addition with three point changes, as explained in the trusty right - hand rule. The topics then include using Basis Coordinate System Transformations using Cramer's rule, that eventually slide into matrices and its related notation. These areas I found ingenious. In its development into handing 3X3 and 4X4 dimensional symbolic Matrices notation, using it as a bedrock for using its development with Tensors. I learned just as much knowledge relating to matrices notation as learning to use Tensor notation, and what it means. This is further explored up to three, 4x4 symbolic Matrices multiplied together. In particular, as I have some electrical background, that the section 6 Tensor Applications (page 159- end of the book), The later part being Electromagnetic field Tensor was particularly interesting and engagingly explained and terrifically put over into terms you can grasp. This to my mind goes quiet deep for a book I have classed as a first choice book. So be aware of this deeper area! * Summary This book is really well explained, and the order its developed is also brilliantly done. It's a great book that is really made to help the motivated reader to start to understand the capabilities such as Tensors. Based on an incomplete reading of five books(!) on tensors, this is the one I would humbly recommend to the fresh reader to Tensors to start studies from. Also if you are really stuck, I also found through a third - party to try using a well - known video sharing site and search for topics your finding difficult at the moment, such as 'tensors', and you may find very helpful resources available that fit 'hand - in - glove' with these topics. Update: 19 AUGUST 2020. I have returned to this book for a few weeks to continue strengthening my grasp and its a great help to break down these issues. When I last read this book, it took a lot of that I read on faith, not deeper knowledge. I was not aware of my knowledge limitations at this earlier time. This book is REALLY helpful and I urge you to try this out if your in this area of studies. One other book I hit a knowledge barrier I couldn't cross with this any further, so retrying this book has continued being helpful to me.

The book seems to have been prepared by scanning the original without any serious post editing. The formula therefore got messes up making the book unusable. Also the internal hyperlinking doesn't really work: when following a link to a figure only the caption is shown. The original was prepared with LaTeX. It therefore should be possible to prepare a better kindle edition using the original LaTeX sources edited by the author. More serious post editing by somebody who understands the content of the book would be another option. In the current state, however, the kindle edition is hardly usable.