Dover Publications Inc. Differential Forms with Applications to the Physical Sciences

Foreword; Preface to the Dover Edition; Preface to the First EditionI. Introduction 1.1 Exterior Differential Forms 1.2 Comparison with TensorsII. Exterior algebra 2.1 The Space of p-vectors 2.2 Determinants 2.3 Exterior Products 2.4 Linear Transformations 2.5 Inner Product Spaces 2.6 Inner Products of p-vectors 2.7 The Star Operator 2.8 ProblemsIII. The Exterior Derivative 3.1 Differential Forms 3.2 Exterior Derivative 3.3 Mappings 3.4 Change of coordinates 3.5 An Example from Mechanics 3.6 Converse of the Poincaré Lemma 3.7 An Example 3.8 Further Remarks 3.9 ProblemsIV. Applications 4.1 Moving Frames in E superscript 3 4.2 Relation between Orthogonal and Skew-symmetric Matrices 4.3 The 6-dimensional Frame Space 4.4 The Laplacian, Orthogonal Coordinates 4.5 Surfaces 4.6 Maxwell's Field Equations 4.7 ProblemsV. Manifolds and Integration 5.1 Introduction 5.2 Manifolds 5.3 Tangent Vectors 5.4 Differential Forms 5.5 Euclidean Simplices 5.6 Chains and Boundaries 5.7 Integration of Forms 5.8 Stokes' Theorem 5.9 Periods and De Rham's Theorems 5.10 Surfaces; Some Examples 5.11 Mappings of Chains 5.12 ProblemsVI. Applications in Euclidean Space 6.1 Volumes in E superscript n 6.2 Winding Numbers, Degree of a Mapping 6.3 The Hopf Invariant 6.4 Linking Numbers, the Gauss Integral, Amp