Journal: Feb 04, 2009

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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