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041			_aeng
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100			_aFrankel, Theodore _9862528
245		0	_aGeometry of physics: an introdction
250			_a2nd
260			_aCambridge, _bCambridge University Press: _c2004.
300			_axxvi, 694p. _b: ill.
500			_aAppendix A-E, 617-675p.; References 679-681p.; Index 683-694p.
520			_ahis 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 deformation tensors of elasticity, soap films, special and general relativity, 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; consequently, the book should be of interest also to mathematics students. Ideal for graduate and advanced undergraduate students of physics, engineering and mathematics as a course text or for self study.
650			_aMathematical _9862529
650			_aPhysics _9862530
650			_aGeometry _9862531
700			_aFrankel, Theodore _9862528
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