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...
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...