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I found out a little bit about Einstein recently regarding his trip to Manchester June 9th 1921. I was surprised to find out that he... -
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I have a problem with coming up with something at hand, I learned most of these things from different papers and from people I worked...
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A nice thing about geometric algebra is that there is no such thing as "the right hand rule." The sign comes about naturally. An...
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In my websearch for conventions in Geometric Algebra, I stumbled upon two vocal critics of GA (listed below). Since I am just learning...
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bhobba replied to the thread Graduate What Exactly Is The Physical Content Of Maxwell's Equations?.A really great book that integrates it with multivariable calculus and linear algebra is...
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bhobba replied to the thread Graduate What Exactly Is The Physical Content Of Maxwell's Equations?.I only know of Wigner's version from a comment in Ohanian's Gravitation and Space-Time. It was actually my first serious book on GR...
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May or may not. Differential geometry is my specialisation within mathematical physics, and when I tried to study geometric algebra it...
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bhobba replied to the thread Graduate What Exactly Is The Physical Content Of Maxwell's Equations?.See: https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.182.1397 It's been on my to-do list for ages to get down to my old uni...
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What also may help for understanding the EM field is to use Geometric Algebra, applied to 4D-spacetime. The wedge product ##\wedge##...
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Have you read Chapters 3 and 4 of Misner, Thorne, & Wheeler? That's where I first encountered the material that's briefly summarized in... -
When discussing isometric embeddings, there is a little more to it. The metric of the submanifold is taken to be induced from the...
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More precisely, by the Riemann curvature tensor that's derived from a metric via its Levi-Civita connection. There's no problem with...
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bhobba posted the thread Graduate What Exactly Is The Physical Content Of Maxwell's Equations? in Special and General Relativity.It doesn't contain anything new, and nothing I haven't seen before, but as people who have been around a while know, I have a bit of a...