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Sumit Basu
Room no NL 211
Department of Mechanical Engng
IIT Kanpur
Email: sbasu@iitk.ac.in
Ph: +91 (0) 512 259 7506 (O)
+91 (0) 512 259 8511 (R)
If you do not attend the tutorials and classes, it is very unlikely that you
will be able to do well in the course.
Lack of knowledge of the mechanics of deformable bodies can be costly
for a Mechanical engineer.
Symmery or skew
symmetry reduces
the number of
independent
components of the
tensor.
Contraction
3 2
Permutations
Clockwise: even
Counter clockwise: odd
i j k i m n
first
second