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topics on vectors (Topic)

I Vector algebra

  1. definition of vector
  2. vector space
  3. parallelogram principle, median vector, difference of vectors
  4. geometric applications: mid-segment theorem, common point of triangle medians, median of trapezoid
  5. system of coordinates
  6. basis
  7. position vector
  8. norm (through Pythagoras)
  9. unit vector
  10. direction cosines
  11. dot product
  12. orthogonality condition
  13. cross product
  14. parallelism condition
  15. area of parallelogram
  16. triple scalar product, volume of prism
  17. triple cross product
  18. distance of non-parallel lines (an application)
  19. matrices and determinants
  20. matrices and linear mappings
  21. linear systems and solution methods

II Vector calculus

  1. definiton of real valued vector function
  2. derivative of vector function
  3. properties of derivative of vector function
  4. derivative of a vector function with constant norm
  5. nabla
  6. cylindrical coordinates
  7. polar coordinates
  8. spherical coordinates
  9. differential geometry
  10. tangent, normal and binormal vectors
  11. osculating plane, normal plane and binormal planes
  12. Frenet frame
  13. Frenet-Serret equations
  14. kinematic method for calculating the radius of curvature
  15. gradient of a scalar function
  16. divergence of a vector function
  17. solenoidal field
  18. vector potential
  19. curl of a vector function
  20. irrotational field, lamellar field
  21. Helmholtz decomposition
  22. integration of vector functions
  23. line integral
  24. tensors and differential forms
  25. covariant differentiation

III Integral theorems

  1. Gauss theorem
  2. solid angle
  3. Green theorems
  4. Stokes theorem
  5. circulation and vorticity
  6. Kelvin theorem
  7. Helmholtz theorems

IV Vector advanced topics

  1. alternate characterization of curl
  2. tensor notation for a vector
  3. transformation law for a vector
  4. vector fields: Lagrangian and Eulerian description
  5. motion of continuum
  6. Jacobians connected with transformation of integration regions
  7. Reynolds transport theorem
  8. rotations
  9. linear transformation spaces
  10. linear functionals or covectors
  11. bivectors
  12. exterior or Grassmann algebra
  13. Clifford algebra
  14. quaternions
  15. projective geometry
  16. Grassmann-Cayley algebra
  17. vector bundles
  18. connections
  19. spinors
  20. twistors
  21. spin structures
  22. linear programming and the simplex method
  23. representation theory
  24. linear extension
  25. K-theory
  26. Category $ {\rm Vect}_{\mathbb{R}}$

V Endomorphism decomposition

  1. eigenvalues, eigenvectors
  2. characteristic and minimal polynomials
  3. eigen-subspaces and invariant subspaces
  4. Hamilton-Cayley theorem
  5. Jordan blocks and canonical decomposition
  6. singular value decomposition

VI Lie groups and Lie algebras

  1. the connection between Lie groups and Lie algebras
  2. commutators or Lie bracket
  3. matrix groups and algebras
  4. Pauli matrices



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AMS MSC53A45 (Differential geometry :: Classical differential geometry :: Vector and tensor analysis)

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