August 2016 Exercise on indicial notations & tensors
Handout #1
1. Expand the following wherever possible:
(a) Aij Bi (b) Aii Bi (c) Aii Bkk (d) Aijk Bik 2. Show the following using indicial notations: (a) rs irs = 0 (b) ijk ijm = 2km (c) a (b c) = (a c)b (a b)c 3. Evaluate the following expressions: (a) ij ( Aij A ji ) (b) ip jq a p b j cq (c) (ij + Aij )(ij Aij ) 4. Show that the determinant of matrix A can be computed as det[ A] =
1 ( A A A + 2Aij A jk Aki 3Aij A ji Akk ). 6 ii jj kk
5. If I is the 3 3 identity matrix and { A} T =
1, show that det[ I 2 { A} { A} T ] = 1.
a1 a2 a3
, where a21 + a22 + a23 =
6. The coordinate system Xi is derived from Xi by rotating an amount about the
X1 axis. (a) Determine the entries of the rotation matrix Rij . (b) Evaluate: R211 + R212 + R213 . 7. Show that trT, trT2 , trT3 are invariants of the tensor T. (Hint: Invariant means independent of the coordinate system at which components are specified.)