Differential Forms with Applications to the Physical Sciences
A graduate-level text introducing the use of exterior differential forms as a powerful tool in the analysis of a variety of mathematical problems in the physical and engineering sciences. Directed primarily to graduate-level engineers and physical scientists, it has also been used successfully to introduce modern differential geometry to graduate students in mathematics. Includes 45 illustrations. Index.
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A graduate-level text utilizing exterior differential forms in the analysis of a variety of mathematical problems in the physical and engineering sciences. Includes 45 illustrations. Index.
Foreword; Preface to the Dover Edition; Preface to the First Edition I. Introduction 1.1 Exterior Differential Forms 1.2 Comparison with Tensors II. Exterior algebra 2.1 The Space of p-vectors 2.2 Determinants 2.3 Exterior Products 2.4 Linear Transformations 2.5 Inner Product Spaces 2.6 Inner Products of p-vectors 2.7 The Star Operator 2.8 Problems III. The Exterior Derivative 3.1 Differential Forms 3.2 Exterior Derivative 3.3 Mappings 3.4 Change of coordinates 3.5 An Example from Mechanics 3.6 Converse of the Poincaré Lemma 3.7 An Example 3.8 Further Remarks 3.9 Problems IV. Applications 4.1 Moving Frames in E superscript 3 4.2 Relation between Orthogonal and Skew-symmetric Matrices 4.3 The 6-dimensional Frame Space 4.4 The Laplacian, Orthogonal Coordinates 4.5 Surfaces 4.6 Maxwell's Field Equations 4.7 Problems V. Manifolds and Integration 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Manifolds 5.3 Tangent Vectors 5.4 Differential Forms 5.5 Euclidean Simplices 5.6 Chains and Boundaries 5.7 Integration of Forms 5.8 Stokes' Theorem 5.9 Periods and De Rham's Theorems 5.10 Surfaces; Some Examples 5.11 Mappings of Chains 5.12 Problems VI. Applications in Euclidean Space 6.1 Volumes in E superscript n 6.2 Winding Numbers, Degree of a Mapping 6.3 The Hopf Invariant 6.4 Linking Numbers, the Gauss Integral, Ampère's Law VII. Applications to Different Equations 7.1 Potential Theory 7.2 The Heat Equation 7.3 The Frobenius Integration Theorem 7.4 Applications of the Frobenius Theorem 7.5 Systems of Ordinary Equations 7.6 The Third Lie Theorem VIII. Applications to Differential Geometry 8.1 Surfaces (Continued) 8.2 Hypersurfaces 8.3 Riemannian Geometry, Local Theory 8.4 Riemannian Geometry, Harmonic Integrals 8.5 Affine Connection 8.6 Problems IX. Applications to Group Theory 9.1 Lie Groups 9.2 Examples of Lie Groups 9.3 Matrix Groups 9.4 Examples of Matrix Groups 9.5 Bi-invariant Forms 9.6 Problems X. Applications to Physics 10.1 Phase and State Space 10.2 Hamiltonian Systems 10.3 Integral-invariants 10.4 Brackets 10.5 Contact Transformations 10.6 Fluid Mechanics 10.7 Problems Bibliography; Glossary of Notation; Index
