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040 _aDLC
041 _aeng
082 0 0 _a530.15636
_bFRA/G
100 1 _aFrankel, Theodore
_eauthor
_915491
245 1 4 _aThe geometry of physics :
_ban introduction /
_cby Theodore Frankel
250 _a3rd ed.
260 _aCambridge ;
_aNew York :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2012.
300 _alxii, 686 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 671-673) and index.
520 _a"This book is intended to provide a working knowledge of those parts of exterior differential forms, differential geometry, algebraic and differential topology, Lie groups, vector bundles, and Chern forms that are essential for a deeper understanding of both classical and modern physics and engineering. Included are discussions of analytical and fluid dynamics, electromagnetism (in flat and curved space), thermodynamics, the deformation tensors of elasticity, soap films, special and general relativity, the Dirac operator and spinors, and gauge fields, including Yang-Mills, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, Berry phase, and instanton winding numbers, quarks, and the quark model for mesons. Before a discussion of abstract notions of differential geometry, geometric intuition is developed through a rather extensive introduction to the study of surfaces in ordinary space; consequently, the book should be of interest also to mathematics students. This book will be useful to graduate and advance undergraduate students of physics, engineering or mathematics. It can be used as a course text or for self-study. This third edition includes a new overview of Cartan's exterior differential forms. It previews many of the geometric concepts developed in the text and illustrates their applications to a single extended problem in engineering, namely the Cauchy stresses created by a small twist of an elastic cylindrical rod about its axis"--
650 0 _aGeometry, Differential.
_91632
650 0 _aMathematical physics.
_92434
650 7 _aMATHEMATICS / Topology.
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