1. Introduction and the geometric viewpoint on physics.
MIT 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2020
Instructor: Scott Hughes
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Introduction; the geometric viewpoint on physics. Review of Lorentz transformations and Lorentz-invariant intervals. The 4-vector; basis vectors and vector components. Introduction to component notation. The inner product between two 4-vectors, and the metric tensor.
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