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What Is a Tensor? The mathematical point of view. - Physics Forums In physics, tensors are often a mixture of several vector spaces and several dual spaces It also makes sense to sort both kinds as the tensor product isn’t commutative Definition: A tensor of type of with contravariant and covariant components is an element (vector) of By (1) this tensor is linear in all its components Tensor Examples