Talk:Neo-Hookean solid
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[edit] Cleanup
This whole category currently suffers badly from articles which
- use terms without defining them,
- use terms which are not standard in the wider context of applied mathematics, but which should defined in this wider context (e.g. using "first invariant" for "trace" is helpful to absolutely no-one, emphatically including materials science students)
- are inadequately linked with appropriate articles in multilinear algebra,
- fail to distinguish between tensors and tensor fields,
- fail to point out which quanties are constants arbitrarily chosen in order to model particular materials, and terms which represent generally defined physical quanties like internal energy.
In general, materials science notation tends to be far too clumsy and specialized, and engineering students should refuse to tolerate it. (Even better, engineering professors should clean their house--- starting with these articles!) However, to repeat, saying "first invariant" when you mean "trace" really takes the cake. I mean, that's really appalling. Since you should never use this term without adding or trace, why use it all? What's the point? If engineering professors are trying to keep their students from accidently learning some mathematics, they certainly are going about it the right way by inventing new terms which are not used outside their own classes.---CH (talk) 00:35, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
In Uniaxial Tension example, epsilon<<1, not 0.
