From 36b6b12b1345c8c68edaccc925185f5e82d3438e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bnewbold Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 18:24:32 -0500 Subject: updates --- journal/02feb2009.html | 3 ++- journal/04feb2009.html | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 journal/04feb2009.html (limited to 'journal') diff --git a/journal/02feb2009.html b/journal/02feb2009.html index 658538a..dea6f53 100644 --- a/journal/02feb2009.html +++ b/journal/02feb2009.html @@ -107,7 +107,8 @@ is not a coordinate basis." Isn't that just for orthogonal bases? Need to think this through.

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+Journal: Feb 04, 2009

+Bryan Newbold, bnewbold@mit.edu
+ +http://web.mit.edu/bnewbold/thesis/ +

+ + +Started 8.962: General Relativity with Scott Hughes yesturday, I'm very +enthusiastic. I'm surprised how large the class is, I'm greedily hoping it will +thin out. My first impressions are that it will be very manageable given the +background preparation I've done. We'll be doing "fundamentals" up through +the spring break and applications after that, which fits my schedule well. + +

+Yet another item on my reading queue is +Laszlo Tisza's notes on Applied Geometric Algebra on + +open courseware from the 70's. I'm also poking through Lovelock and Rund's +Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles as light +background on tensor calculus as I work through the later parts of the +differential geometry memo. + +

+Other than that not much to report, first week of classes are leaving me enough +time to keep reading but I haven't been playing/exploring on my own as much. +Hopefully I'll get the chance to calculate some geodesics and come up with +an outline on Friday. +

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