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I re-read chapter 4 of Fleisch, and the replies are correct and I was wrong, Fleisch hasn't introduced tensors at that point. Given that, allow me to re-do the second part of my question: In a classical rigid-body problem, a second-rank tensor is used to create (calculate? generate?) a new...

I've been reading Fleisch's "A Student's Guide to Vectors and Tensors" as a self-study, and watched this helpful video also by Fleisch: Suddenly co-vectors and one-forms make more sense than they did when I tried to learn the from Schutz's GR book many years ago. Especially in the video...