TY - BOOK ID - 135713109 TI - Advances in classical field theory PY - 2011 SN - 1608051951 9781608051953 PB - [Place of publication not identified] Bentham Science Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Field theory (Physics) KW - Gravitation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135713109 AB - Classical field theory is employed by physicists to describe a wide variety of physical phenomena. These include electromagnetism, fluid dynamics, gravitation and quantum mechanics. The central entity of field theory is the field which is usually a multi component function of space and time. Those multi component functions are usually grouped together as vector fields as in the case in electromagnetic theory and fluid dynamics, in other cases they are grouped as tensors as in theories of gravitation and yet in other cases they are grouped as complex functions as in the case of quantum mechanic ER -