Description: This book provides a working knowledge of those parts of exterior differential forms, differential geometry, algebraic and differential topology, Lie groups, vector bundles and Chern forms that are essential for a deeper understanding of both classical and modern physics and engineering. Included are discussions of analytical and fluid dynamics, electromagnetism (in flat and curved space), thermodynamics, the Dirac operator and spinors, and gauge fields, including Yang-Mills, the Aharonov-Bohm effect, Berry phase and instanton winding numbers, quarks and quark model for mesons. Before discussing abstract notions of differential geometry, geometric intuition is developed through a rather extensive introduction to the study of surfaces in ordinary space. The book is ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of physics, engineering or mathematics as a course text or for self study. This third edition includes an overview of Cartan's exterior differential forms, which previews many of the geometric concepts developed in the text.
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EAN: 9781107602601
UPC: 9781107602601
ISBN: 9781107602601
MPN: N/A
Item Length: 24.1 cm
Number of Pages: 748 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: The Geometry of Physics: an Introduction
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Year: 2011
Subject: Mathematics, Physics
Item Height: 248 mm
Item Weight: 1440 g
Type: Textbook
Author: Theodore Frankel
Item Width: 174 mm
Format: Paperback
