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Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 23:42:35 UTC No. 16212684
Are tensors and continuum mechanics ever actually used in engineering? Are engineering students expected to understand this or does it require mathematical background?
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 23:48:05 UTC No. 16212687
>>16212684
Tensors get used in multi-sensor signal processing quite often. Vector sensor analysis (as an example) requires some familiarity with tensor products.
Don't know much about the other engineering fields though.
Anonymous at Wed, 5 Jun 2024 23:48:20 UTC No. 16212689
>>16212684
Unless you are an lgbt social "engineer" and actually do something useful then yes, you do need tensors
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:36:11 UTC No. 16212743
>>16212684
Σ as notation for sums exists for a reason, you know.
>>16212689
Spin dynamics as well.
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 00:51:02 UTC No. 16212768
>>16212684
the entirety of science and engineering is built on linear algebra, of which tensors are a major part (they are multilinear maps)
Anonymous at Thu, 6 Jun 2024 06:45:24 UTC No. 16213183
>>16212687
he's talking about cauchy stress tensors you dumb black gorilla