Course of differential geometry

Overview & Synopsis

This book contains below topics, CHAPTER CUR VES IN THREEDIMENSIONAL SPACE, The length integral and the natural parametrization of a c urve, Curves as trajectories of material points in mechanics, CHAPTER ELEMENTS OF VECTORIAL AND TENSORIAL ANALYSIS, Vectorial and tensorial elds in the space, Tensor product and contraction, The algebra of tensor elds, Symmetrization and alternation, Dierentiation of tensor elds, The metric tensor and the volume pseudotensor, The properties of pseudotensors.