I never intuitively understood Tensors...until now!

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What exactly is a tensor?

Chapters:
00:00 What exactly are Tensors?
01:23 Analysing conductivity in anisotropic crystals
03:31 Is conductivity a vector? (hint: nope)
05:00 The key idea to understand Tensors
07:07 Rotating the co-ordinate axes (climax)
10:48 Why are Tensors written in matrix form
11:50 Conductivity is a rank-2 Tensor
14:14 Rank-2 Tensors in Engineering & Astronomy
17:48 Rank-3 & Rank 4 Tensors in material science
20:29 The most intuitive definition of Tensors

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