Any commercial use without written consent from the author is prohibited. An ndimensional vector eld is described by a onetoone correspondence between nnumbers and a point. A triplet of constant functions real numbers is called free vector, meaning that its absolute value and direction as well as its components are independent or free from the argument point. Tensors for beginners albert tarantola september 15, 2004 1 tensor notations the velocity of the wind at the top of eiffels tower, at a given moment, can be represented by a vector v with components, in some local, given, basis, vi i 1,2,3. Understanding the role of the metric in linking the various forms of tensors1 and, more importantly, in di. For algebra on vectors and tensors, an index must show up twice and only twice.
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