Lesson 3 – 29/09/2022

29 Setembro 2022, 11:00 • Carlos da Camara

Einstein’s notational convention. The Kronecker delta symbol. Permutations. The Levi-Civita symbol. Relation between the Kronecker delta and the Leviti-Civita symbols. Identities in vector algebra. Identities in vector fields.

Support material

Yiu, C., Wilde, C.O. (1979) The Levi-Civita tensor and identities in vector analysis. Modules and Monographs in UMAP Project Unit 427, Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, Mass., National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C., pp. 1-16

Homework

Problems 27-33