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- Supports learning and teaching with extended exercises at the end of every chapter including solutions
- Contains numerous examples for efficient description of anisotropies in physical phenomena
- Describes how to use tensors to calculate anisotropical properties of orientational phenomena in the theoretical description, in addition to vector analysis
- Presents vector analysis using Cartesian components
- Contains a chapter on the physics of liquid crystals, the best model application of the tensor algebra
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics (ULNP)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Reviews
“This book is devoted to a thorough didactic presentation of tensors, which play an important role in Physics in order to describe anisotropic phenomena and their orientational behavior. … This volume is very well written and it can be a valuable support to researchers and graduate students in mathematical physics, applied nonlinear analysis and other applied sciences.” (Teodora-Liliana Rădulescu, zbMATH 1320.00002, 2015)
Authors and Affiliations
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Institute for Theoretical Physics, Technical University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Siegfried Hess
About the author
Siegfried Hess studied Mathematics and Physics at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg, was a graduate student in Chemical Engineering at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA and got his PhD in Physics in Erlangen in 1967. He was postdoc at the Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory of the University Leiden, Holland and made his habilitation in Physics in Erlangen, 1970. Later, he became professor for Theoretical Physics in Erlangen and from 1984 till 2007 he held the chair for Transport Theory and Statistical Physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Technical University Berlin. As guest scientist and visiting professor he worked at the Department of Physics of the University of Toronto, Canada, at the Huygens Laboratory of the University Leiden, at the National Bureau of Standards (NBS, now NIST) in Boulder, Colorado, USA, at the Institute Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France, at the department of Chemistry of the National Australian University in Canberra and at the Institute for Theoretical Physics (ITP, now KITP) of the University of California in Santa Barbara.
Siegfried Hess was involved in numerous national and international research projects, both as project leader and as reviewer and adviser. His scientific work is documented in over 250 publications. The list of publications features the names of over 100 co-authors, viz. of students, postdocs and colleagues, from about 20 countries and of all 5 continents. He was fond of demonstrating the advantages of the use of Cartesian Tensors in teaching the courses of Theoretical Physics and in his research dealing with equilibrium and non-equilibrium properties of anisotropic fluids and other topics of condensed matter physics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tensors for Physics
Authors: Siegfried Hess
Series Title: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12787-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12786-6Published: 06 May 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12787-3Published: 25 April 2015
Series ISSN: 2192-4791
Series E-ISSN: 2192-4805
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 440
Number of Illustrations: 55 b/w illustrations
Topics: Mathematical Methods in Physics, Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences, Soft and Granular Matter, Complex Fluids and Microfluidics, Physical Chemistry, Mathematical and Computational Engineering