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    Graduate Rate-of-strain tensor in cylindrical coords.

    Chet, Thanks for the reply. I will follow up on your suggestions. Meanwhile, let me offer one bit of discovery. According to MathWorld, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CylindricalCoordinates.html, there are two representations of the Christoffel symbols in cylindrical coordinates, one...
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    Graduate Rate-of-strain tensor in cylindrical coords.

    Nothing yet. Would still appreciate some insight into my error.
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    Graduate Rate-of-strain tensor in cylindrical coords.

    Hi PF, I posted this in HW a week ago and got no response. Might be a bit beyond the typical HW forum troller. So, please excuse the double-post. Homework Statement I'm trying to derive the rate-of-strain tensor in cylindrical coords, starting with the Christoffel symbols. Homework...