Tensor Analysis and Continuum Mechanics by Wilhelm Flügge, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Through several centuries there has been a lively interaction between mathematics and mechanics. On the one side, mechanics has used mathemat­ ics to formulate the basic laws and to apply them to a host of problems that call for the quantitative prediction of the consequences of some action. On the other side, the needs of mechanics have stimulated the development of mathematical concepts. Differential calculus grew out of the needs of Newtonian dynamics; vector algebra was developed as a means . to describe force systems; vector analysis, to study velocity fields and force fields; and the calcul | Tensor Analysis and Continuum Mechanics by Wilhelm Flügge, Paperback | Indigo Chapters