260203 VO Introduction to vector and tensor calculus II (2014S)

Description of curves and surfaces, tangential and normal vectors, nonlinear coordinate systems, coordinate lines and surfaces, covariant and contravariant vector bases, transformation behavior, length of curves andmetric, metric tensor, covariant derivative of scalars, vectors, tensors, parallel displacement of vectors, vector differential operators innonlinear coordinates, applications to cylindrically and spherically symmetric physical problems.