Thursday, May 12, 2011
Book News
Leonard Susskind and I have now signed a contract with Basic Books for the Theoretical Minimum: Classical Mechanics. This book is contracted to be completed by January of 2012 (don't be surprised if it is finished before then).
Monday, May 9, 2011
Check Out the Research Log on MAST
There is a research log that allows you to view our research as we conduct it. You can find it at: http://www.madscitech.org/rlog/rlog1.html
Sunday, May 8, 2011
More Fun With Tensors
Tensor Session 2
More Examples from David McMahon’s Book, “Relativity DeMysified”
Example 2-4
Given,
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Fun With Tensors
Fun with Tensors
George E. Hrabovsky
James Firmiss
Example 2-3 from David McMahon’s book Relativity Demystified.
Given the line element
we seek to find the metric tensors for raising and lowering indices for vectors and one-forms. We begin by noting that the metric tensor is symmetrical,
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