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Talpaert Yves |
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Mechanics in differential geometry / / Yves R. Talpaert |
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Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, Massachusetts : , : VSP, , 2006 |
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©2006 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (571 p.) |
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Geometry, Differential |
Mechanics |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE / Talpaert, Yves R. -- CHAPTER Ο. INTRODUCTION TO TENSORS -- 1. WELL KNOWN CONCEPTS -- 2. OPERATIONS ON TENSORS -- CHAPTER 1. FOUNDATIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY -- 1. MANIFOLDS -- 2. TANGENT VECTOR SPACE -- 3. TANGENT BUNDLE, VECTOR FIELD, AND LIE ALGEBRA -- 4. COTANGENT BUNDLE AND COVECTOR FIELDS -- 5. TENSOR ALGEBRA AND TENSOR FIELDS -- 6. EXTERIOR DIFFERENTIAL FORMS -- 7. LIE DERIVATIVE, LIE GROUP, AND LIE ALGEBRA -- 8. INTEGRATION OF FORMS -- 9. RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY -- EXERCISES -- CHAPTER 2. SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY -- 1. PRELIMINARIES -- 2. SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY -- CHAPTER 3. A MODERN EXPOSITION OF MECHANICS -- 1. LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS -- 2. HAMILTONIAN MECHANICS -- 3. COMPARISON OF THE LAGRANGIAN AND HAMILTONIAN FORMULATIONS -- 4. HAMILTON-JACOBI MECHANICS -- 5. INTRODUCTION TO PERTURBATIONS -- EXERCISES -- CHAPTER 4. THE N-BODY PROBLEM; AN ORIGINAL METHOD FOR LARGE Ν -- 1. N-BODY PROBLEM, EQUATIONS AND INTEGRALS -- 2. THE N-BODY PROBLEM IN STATISTICAL MECHANICS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY OF SYMBOLS -- INDEX |
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