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Tai, Chen-To (date)
Generalized vector and dyadic analysis: applied mathematics in
field theory / Chen-To Tai -2nd ed.
p. ern.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7803-3413-2 (cloth)
1. Vector analysis. I. Title.
QA433.T3 1997
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Contents
Preface to the Second Edition xi
Preface to the First Edition xiii
Acknowledgments for the First Edition xv
1 Vector and Dyadic Algebra 1
1-1 Representations ofVector Functions
1-2 Products and Identities 4
1-3 Orthogonal Transformation of Vector
Functions 8
1-4 Transform of Vector Products 14
1-5 Definition of Dyadics and Tensors 16
1-6 Classification of Dyadics 17
1-7 Products Between Vectors and Dyadics 19
2 Coordinate Systems 23
2-1 General Curvilinear System (GCS) 23
2-2 Orthogonal Curvilinear System (OCS) 28
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viii Contents
2-3 Derivatives of Unit Vectors in OCS 33
2-4 Dupin Coordinate System 35
2-5 Radii of Curvature 37
3 Line Integrals, Surface Integrals, and Volume
Integrals 43
3-1 Differential Length, Area, and Volume 43
3-2 Classification of Line Integrals 44
3-3 Classification of Surface Integrals 48
3-4 Classification of Volume Integrals 56
4 Vector Analysis in Space 58
4-1 Symbolic Vector And Symbolic Vector
Expressions 58
4-2 Differential Formulas ofthe Symbolic Expression
in the Orthogonal Curvilinear Coordinate System
for Gradient, Divergence, and Curl 61
4-3 Invariance of the Differential Operators 65
4-4 Differential Formulas of the Symbolic
Expression in the General Curvilinear
System 69
4-5 Alternative Definitions of Gradient
and Curl 75
4-6 The Method of Gradient 78
4-7 Symbolic Expressions with Two Functions
and the Partial Symbolic Vectors 81
4-8 Symbolic Expressions with Double Symbolic
Vectors 86
4-9 Generalized Gauss Theorem in Space 91
4-10 Scalar and Vector Green's Theorems 93
4-11 Solenoidal Vector, Irrotational Vector,
and Potential Functions 95
5 Vector Analysis on Surface 99
5-1 Surface SymbolicVector and Symbolic Expression
for a Surface 99
5-2 Surface Gradient, Surface Divergence, and Surface
Curl 101
5-2-1 Surface Gradient 101
Con~n~ ~
5-2-2 Surface Divergence 102
5-2-3 Surface Curl 103
5-3 Relationship Between the Volume and Surface
Symbolic Expressions 104
5-4 Relationship Between Weatherbum's Surface
Functions and the Functions Defined
in the Method of Symbolic Vector 104
5-5 Generalized Gauss Theorem for a Surface 106
5-6 Surface Symbolic Expressions with a Single
Symbolic Vector and Two Functions 111
5-7 Surface Symbolic Expressions with Two Surface
Symbolic Vectors and a Single Function 113
6 Vector Analysis of Transport Theorems 116
6-1 Helmholtz Transport Theorem 116
6-2 Maxwell Theorem and Reynolds Transport
Theorem 119
7 Dyadic Analysis 121
7-1 Divergence and Curl of Dyadic Functions
and Gradient of Vector Functions 121
7-2 Dyadic Integral Theorems 124
8 A Historical StUdy of Vector Analysis 127
8-1 Introduction 127
8-2 Notations and Operators 129
8-2-1 Past and Present Notations
in Vector Analysis 129
8-2-2 QuatemionAnalysis 131
8-2-3 Operators 132
8-3 The Pioneer Works of J. Willard Gibbs
(1839-1903) 135
8-3-1 Two Pamphlets Printed in 1881
and 1884 135
8-3-2 Divergence and Curl Operators
and Their New Notations 138
8-4 Book by Edwin Bidwell Wilson Founded
Upon the Lectures of J. Willard Gibbs 141