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What is the meant by tensor?

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Question added by Syed Asad , Lecturer of physics , Punjab Group of Colleges
Date Posted: 2017/06/19

vector quantity of one of the physical properties depending on the direction (deffirent  values in deffirent directions), such as conductivity, risitance, etc.

Mohamed El-Houssieny
by Mohamed El-Houssieny , محاضر , جامعة توليدو -اوهايو

It is a generalization or higher rank of matercies. For example, vector is a tensor of rank one and matercies is of rank two. Tensors is a tool to genralize many of the mathematical and physical concept. For instance, it is a main tool to study general relatvity and the geomtry of the spacetime using the metric.

This article gives a nice introduction to the subject

Khandoker Mohammed Mominul Haque
by Khandoker Mohammed Mominul Haque , Visiting Professor , Dalian University of Technology

Tensor describe geometric relation between scalar-scalar,scalar-vector,vector-vector and even other tensors.

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