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Journal: Feb 04, 2009</h1>
<i>Bryan Newbold, <a href="mailto:bnewbold@mit.edu">bnewbold@mit.edu</a></i><br />
<i><a href="http://web.mit.edu/bnewbold/thesis/">
http://web.mit.edu/bnewbold/thesis/</a></i>
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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.
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Yet another item on my reading queue is
Laszlo Tisza's notes on Applied Geometric Algebra on
<a href="http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/resources/tisza/index.htm">
open courseware</a> from the 70's. I'm also poking through Lovelock and Rund's
<u>Tensors, Differential Forms, and Variational Principles</u> as light
background on tensor calculus as I work through the later parts of the
differential geometry memo.
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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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