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Tensortutorial

SIMILARworkshop,810June2005
MagnusHerberthson Dep.ofMathematics&Dep.ofBiomedicalEngineering LinkpingUniversity email:maher@mai.liu.se

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Tensortutorial
Whatisatensor? Whataretensorsgoodfor/examples? Vectorspaces,linearmappings Changeofbasis Dualvectors,dualspace Themetric/scalarproduct,(&thedeterminant) Tensors Examples Differentiation

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Whatisatensor?
Whatisavector? Whatisalinearmapping?
(Orrather,howdo youviewthese?)

Severalopinions/viewpoints.Myopinion: Amapping,ageometricobject.Notabunchofnumbers. N.B.notation tensorsatapoint~tensorfields vectorspace,affinespace,pointspace

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Whataretheygoodfor?
Tensorsdescribephysicalpropertiesof/in mechanics(stresstensor,straintensor) vectorcalculus(vectorfields) medicin(waitandsee...) electromagnetism(Maxwelltensor,EMfield) relativity(curvatureofspacetime) ...

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Whatisavector?

Example:avectorintheplane(withorigin).Isita,borc?

(Mychoiceisc.)

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Whatabouta)?
y q

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Vectorspaces(overR)
u+v u 3/2u v

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Apicture
Theelementsarevectors Nobasis:nocoordinates Beware:Rnisspecial (why?)

(Whatisthisboxfor?)

N.B. vectorspace~affinespace~pointspace

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Notation,aremark

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Anexample

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Linearmappings

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Thematrixofamapping(givenabasis)
V W

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Changeofbasis?
v2 w2 v1 u w1 y2w2 x2v2 x1v1 y1w1

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Whathappenstothecoordinatesofu?

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Whathappenstothematrix?

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Gradient&scalarproductasamapping

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Thedualspace

Ex.condensator: PotentialV1

Origin

PotentialV0

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Howdowedrawdualvectors?

Doyouseethat

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Anobservation

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Thedualbasis(cf.reciprocalbasis)

(reciprocal)

(dual)

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ThedimensionofV*

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Coordinates,example

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Whathappenstothecoordinatesof?

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Themetric,scalarproduct
u v

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Anobservation

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Thecomponentsofg(whatbasis?)

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Thecomponentsofg(whatbasis?)II

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Componentsofg,III

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Anotherexample

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AnotherexampleII

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Butthen....

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Drawingthemetricg g u v

. g(u,)

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Onedefinitionofatensor

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Rememberourlist:

Tensorsdescribephysicalpropertiesof/in mechanics(stresstensor,straintensor) vectorcalculus(vectorfields) medicin(waitandsee...) electromagnetism(Maxwelltensor,EM field) relativity(curvatureofspacetime) ....

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Someremarks
Havenottalkedsomuchofthebasis Morecanbesaidaboutnotation Tensorsapoint>tensorfields Transformationpropertiesofcomponents willfollow Differentiationoftensorfields,inparticular covariantderivative

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Awordoncovariantderivative

Acovector.Components.

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Covariantderivative

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Covariantderivative,II

Thats allfor now.


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