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I’m studying Physics and taking an advanced electromagnetic theory course. We just culminated the course by defining relativistic force fields as tensors. For our purposes in class, we are only using 4-vectors and tensors are treated like matrices, but I believe that there is actually a difference.

I recall seeing a video sometime ago explaining that tensors showed how much of a component in the mu column change because of the nu row component; whereas a matrix can be explained as an array of elements.

Wikipedia sucks at explaining Math. Struggling to find some good resources.