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romsofia reacted to JimWhoKnew's post in the thread High School Looking for an English translation of Levi-Civita's 1926 paper "Sur l'écart géodésique" ("On the geodesic deviation") with
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It seems that parts of the paper are Italian-to-French translation of the first edition of the book, so they are almost identical to the... -
1. Transport of Differential Forms Let ##M## be a smooth manifold with local coordinates ##x=(x^{1},\dots,x^{m})^{T}##. Consider a...
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romsofia reacted to jedishrfu's post in the thread High School Looking for an English translation of Levi-Civita's 1926 paper "Sur l'écart géodésique" ("On the geodesic deviation") with
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The recommendation I got was to use his book, as mentioned in an earlier post by @romsofia, as a basis, and to look for modern... -
romsofia replied to the thread High School Looking for an English translation of Levi-Civita's 1926 paper "Sur l'écart géodésique" ("On the geodesic deviation").Have you checked out Levi-Civita's book "The Absolute Differential Calculus"? Chapter VII has some geodesic deviation stuff. Otherwise...
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romsofia reacted to Demystifier's post in the thread Undergrad Why is the Lorentz Force always perpendicular to velocity? with
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Not really the answer to the OP's question, but an interesting observation. Assuming that the mass squared $$m^2=p^{\mu}p_{\mu}$$ does...