Stress energy tensor's Component

shounakbhatta · Oct 31, 2012

Hello,

Considering stress energy tensor as:

[T00,T01,T02,T03
T10,T12,T13,T14
T20,T21,T22,T24
T30,T31,T32,T33]

Is T00=Energy density?
Is T10,T20,T30 = momentum density?
t02=energy flux?
t11,t22,t33=pressure?
which is the momentum flux?
where is the shear stress?

Thanks,

-- Shounak

haushofer · Oct 31, 2012

Have you considered textbooks like Wald, d'Inverno or Carroll, or e.g. wikipedia? The physical meaning of the components are nice explained there.

bcrowell · Oct 31, 2012

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress-energy_tensor

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