Question: Derive the component manipulation rules (1.9g) and (1.9h). In component notation, the inner product of two vectors and the value of a tensor when vectors

Derive the component manipulation rules (1.9g) and (1.9h).


In component notation, the inner product of two vectors and the value

In component notation, the inner product of two vectors and the value of a tensor when vectors are inserted into its slots are given by A.B=A; B, T(A, B, C) = Tijk AjBjCk (1.9g) as one can easily show using previous equations. Finally, the contraction of a tensor [say, the fourth-rank tensor R(______)] on two of its slots (say, the first and third) has components that are easily computed from the tensor's own components: components of [1&3contraction of R] = Rijik. (1.9h) Note that Rijik is summed on the i index, so it has only two free indices, j and k, and thus is the component of a second-rank tensor, as it must be if it is to represent the contraction of a fourth-rank tensor.

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