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Here is the addition to the slides you have starting from page 73 of the slides you have on Tensor Calculus. It served as our introduction to the lecture this morning.

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I hope the class today was a bit clearer. Let me have your comments here.

James Ebhabha wrote on the scalar triple product of the base vectors. Here is my response:

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Please let me have a feedback on this post. Students who want to discuss details can send me their fully typeset comments using the Microsoft equations editor through my email address. I will paste their questions with my response on this page so to benefit other students.

Here are the slides on Tensor Calculus

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Hello Taiwo,

You made a valiant effort to obtain the component representation of the third invariant of the second-order tensor. You are generally on the right track but you did not express the scalar product completely in the component form as you should have done. Since a scalar triple product is a scalar, you should be able to express it completely without any vector basis. I have decided to work it out fully for the class and my notes from now on will carry the explanation I am supplying below:

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This should provide a complete answer to what you were trying to do. If you have further questions, please comment below.

Home work 2 solutions are as follows:

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