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Spinors for Beginners 20: Lorentz Group / Algebra Representation Theory
Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs
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Powerpoint slide files + Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners
Sources to look at:
- Wikipedia article on "Representation Theory of the Lorentz Group": en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representation_theory_of_the_Lorentz_group
- "Group Theory for Physicsts" by Wu-Ki Tang
- "Physics of the Lorentz Group, by Sibel Ba¸skal, Young S Kim, and Marilyn E Noz":
iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-1-6817-4254-0/chapter/bk978-1-6817-4254-0ch1.pdf
0:00 - Review of SU(2) and SL(2,C)
6:39 - sl(2,C)c = su(2)c + su(2)c
10:28 - SL(2,C)c = SU(2)c x SU(2)c
12:30 - Representation...
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What is Quantum Mechanics? (joke video)
Просмотров 60 тыс.3 месяца назад
What is Quantum Mechanics?
Spinors for Beginners 19: Tensor Product Representations of su(2) [Clebsch-Gordan coefficients]
Просмотров 11 тыс.3 месяца назад
Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners Clebsch-Gordan Tables: pdg.lbl.gov/2002/clebrpp.pdf Videos on Clebsch-Gordan Coefficients: - ruclips.net/video/a6p_8J1QTww/видео.html - ruclips.net/video/UPyf9ntr-B8/видео.html 0:00 -...
dune gom jabbar scene but it's a hard integral
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The integral in this video is for measuring radial lengths near a Schwarzschild black hole: ruclips.net/video/ZS22sw4NRDY/видео.htmlsi=EYPPRDSzdcCWk6WG&t=755 In general relativity, gravity "bends" space so that it's "bigger on the inside", so volumes near black holes contain more space than you'd expect for a given boundary. Credit to a combination of Wolfram Alpha and my boyfriend for helping ...
Spinors for Beginners 18: Irreducible Representations of SU(2) (Ladder Operators)
Просмотров 12 тыс.4 месяца назад
Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners Wikipedia page with example su(2) reps: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_rotation_group Wikipedia page about spin angular momentum of light: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin_angular_momentum_of_lig...
Spinors for Beginners 17: The spin 1/2 representations of SU(2) and SL(2,C)
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Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners Physics of the Lorentz Group PDF (hints at how to re-write tensor product representation): iopscience.iop.org/book/mono/978-1-6817-4254-0.preview.pdf Previous videos: SfB #6.1 on Bive...
Spinors for Beginners 16: Lie Groups and Lie Algebras
Просмотров 24 тыс.6 месяцев назад
Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners Videos on momentum operator generating translations in quantum mechanics: Physics with Elliot: ruclips.net/video/_lz1VfI6Wxk/видео.html&pp=ygUecGh5c2ljcyB3aXRoIGVsbGlvdCBjb21tdXRhdG9y...
my greatest mistake...
Просмотров 14 тыс.7 месяцев назад
my greatest mistake...
Spinors for Beginners 15: Nilpotents, Fermions, and Maximally Isotropic Subspaces
Просмотров 11 тыс.8 месяцев назад
Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners Professor M Does Science's playlist on multi-particle quantum mechanics with creation and annihilation operators (second quantization): ruclips.net/p/PL8W2boV7eVfnSqy1fs3CCNALSvnDDd-t...
Spinors for Beginners 14: Minimal Left Ideals (and Pacwoman Property)
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Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners Thesis by Crystal-Ann McKenzie: scholar.uwindsor.ca/etd/5652/ 0:00 - Introduction 2:01 - Review of Cl(3,0) 4:28 - Fitting Spinors into Cl(3,0) 8:09 - Minimal Left Ideals 11:39 - Proje...
Spinors for Beginners 13: Ideals and Projectors (Idempotents)
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Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners 0:00 - Matrix Projectors 7:23 - Clifford Algebra Projectors 11:12 - Ideals 18:19 - Projectors create Ideals
Spinors for Beginners 12: How the Spin Group Generalizes Quaternions to any Dimension
Просмотров 20 тыс.9 месяцев назад
Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners 0:00 - Introduction 2:45 - Terminology overview 4:00 - Reflections in 3D space 9:00 - Reflections in 4D spacetime 13:20 - Rotations in 3D space 22:07- Exponentials 26:37 - Rotations B...
Spinors for Beginners 10: SU(2) double covers SO(3) [ SL(2,C) double covers SO+(1,3) ]
Просмотров 20 тыс.10 месяцев назад
Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners 0:00 - Introduction 3:05 - Real projective spaces RP^n 7:29 - SU(2) double-covers SO(3) 11:02 - Simply Connected spaces 14:34 - SL(2,C) double-covers SO (1,3) 20:34 - Mobius Transform...
Spinors for Beginners 11: What is a Clifford Algebra? (and Geometric, Grassmann, Exterior Algebras)
Просмотров 38 тыс.11 месяцев назад
Full spinors playlist: ruclips.net/p/PLJHszsWbB6hoOo_wMb0b6T44KM_ABZtBs Leave me a tip: ko-fi.com/eigenchris Powerpoint slide files Exercise answers: github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/SpinorsForBeginners Sudgylacmoe: ruclips.net/user/sudgylacmoe Swift Introduction to Geometric Algebra: ruclips.net/video/60z_hpEAtD8/видео.html Swift Introduction to Spacetime Algebra: ruclips.net/video/...
Why Sabine Hossenfelder's video on transgender teens is misleading
Просмотров 43 тыс.Год назад
Sources: docs.google.com/document/d/1zHgCEE-3bJWMVr93f6NehlwO5FZY9wQVHk90IJwSjrg/edit?usp=sharing 0:00 0: Introduction 5:37 1: Gender-Affirming Care 11:46 2: Rapid-Onset Gender Dysphoria 17:11 2b: Correlation and Causation 24:29 3: "Vaccines cause Autism" pseudo-science 29:49 4: Special Scrutiny 40:40 5: Follow-up ROGD papers 47:25 6: Falsifiability 50:03 7: Conclusion
Spinors for Beginners 6.1 - Equivalence of Quaternions, Sigma Matrices, and SU(2)
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Spinors for Beginners 6.1 - Equivalence of Quaternions, Sigma Matrices, and SU(2)
Spinors for Beginners 9: Pauli Spinors vs Weyl Spinors vs Dirac Spinors
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Spinors for Beginners 9: Pauli Spinors vs Weyl Spinors vs Dirac Spinors
What Is Voltage? (joke video)
Просмотров 441 тыс.Год назад
What Is Voltage? (joke video)
Spinors for Beginners 8: Are the Pauli Matrices also Vectors? (Intro to Spinor Spaces)
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Spinors for Beginners 8: Are the Pauli Matrices also Vectors? (Intro to Spinor Spaces)
Spinors for Beginners 7: Square Root of a Vector (factoring vector into spinors)
Просмотров 28 тыс.Год назад
Spinors for Beginners 7: Square Root of a Vector (factoring vector into spinors)
Spinors for Beginners 6: Pauli Vectors and Pauli Matrices
Просмотров 31 тыс.Год назад
Spinors for Beginners 6: Pauli Vectors and Pauli Matrices
Spinors for Beginners 5: The Flagpole and Complex Projective Line (CP1)
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Spinors for Beginners 5: The Flagpole and Complex Projective Line (CP1)
Spinors for Beginners 4: Quantum Spin States (Stern-Gerlach Experiment)
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Spinors for Beginners 4: Quantum Spin States (Stern-Gerlach Experiment)
Spinors for Beginners 3: Polarizations and SU(2) Matrices [and O(3), SO(3), U(2)]
Просмотров 46 тыс.Год назад
Spinors for Beginners 3: Polarizations and SU(2) Matrices [and O(3), SO(3), U(2)]
Spinors for Beginners 2: Jones Vectors and Light Polarization
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Spinors for Beginners 2: Jones Vectors and Light Polarization
Spinors for Beginners 1: Introduction (Overview +Table of Contents for video series)
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Spinors for Beginners 1: Introduction (Overview Table of Contents for video series)
Tensors for Beginners 1: Forward and Backward Transformations (REMAKE)
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Tensors for Beginners 1: Forward and Backward Transformations (REMAKE)
Relativity 110d: Cosmology - FLRW Geodesics, Cosmological Redshift, Horizons, Comoving Coordinates
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Relativity 110d: Cosmology - FLRW Geodesics, Cosmological Redshift, Horizons, Comoving Coordinates
Relativity 110f: Cosmology - Friedmann Equations Derivation + Universe Evolution Models (FINALE)
Просмотров 37 тыс.Год назад
Relativity 110f: Cosmology - Friedmann Equations Derivation Universe Evolution Models (FINALE)
Relativity 110b: Cosmology - FLRW Metric Derivation (3 possible geometries)
Просмотров 24 тыс.2 года назад
Relativity 110b: Cosmology - FLRW Metric Derivation (3 possible geometries)

Комментарии

  • @mvanstee
    @mvanstee 16 часов назад

    True gold. Actually makes complex math understandable.

  • @Totally_grace_
    @Totally_grace_ День назад

    Why is this on yt music 😊

  • @AdyOrigin
    @AdyOrigin День назад

    I like the array definition better

  • @Zab_n
    @Zab_n 2 дня назад

    1番わかりやすい

  • @bendunselman
    @bendunselman 2 дня назад

    Great stuff. Great series.

  • @JohnSmall314
    @JohnSmall314 2 дня назад

    Wonderful, wonderful

  • @curtischee2532
    @curtischee2532 2 дня назад

    i love your videos. You present all the mathematical steps and the intuition. I have 300 math and physics books. Your explanations are much better than the explanations in any of my books. I bought you a cup of coffee and will continue to support you.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 2 дня назад

      Thanks a bunch! That's a lot of books. Are they physical or ebooks?

    • @curtischee2532
      @curtischee2532 2 дня назад

      Physical

  • @peterjones7886
    @peterjones7886 2 дня назад

    It is called phasor in EE😊

  • @7quantumphysics
    @7quantumphysics 3 дня назад

    I have a question that’s been gnawing at me for awhile: After finding the z+ projector (P+) in Cl(3,0) would it not be more obvious to write the basis spinors as simply P+ and P-, where P- is defined as the orthogonal version of P+? In other words, would it be more straightforward to use P- to describe the “down state” rather than using another multiple of P+ to describe the “down state”? Likewise for Cl(3,1) or Cl(1,3) (I use the alternative metric signature (-,+,+,+). For this, we need two projectors in a similar style to Cl(3,0) to form a minimal left ideal if we won’t use the pseudo scalar term. Since we need two of them, each of those two has an orthogonal pair, so we can imply that the basis required for spinors in this algebra are formed from these four projectors. Is there any advantage or disadvantage to simply defining the basis this way, compared to multiplying the algebra on the left and finding the basis spinors to be multiples of one or two projectors? I hope that question makes sense 😅, because it’s a lot of words when I can’t just simply point to my scrap paper!

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 3 дня назад

      We need the 2 spinor components to be able to "rotate into each other" using the standard SU(2) matrices / Spin(3) operations we've been covering throughout this series. You can't ever rotate P+ into P- because the P+ component lives in the 1st column (aka ideal) and the P- component lives in the 2nd column (ideal). Meanwhile, P+ and σxP+ both live in the same column (ideal).

  • @Redingold
    @Redingold 3 дня назад

    Hey, I recognise that tensor algebra, that's a Fock space (for bosons). This is making my QFT lectures make a lot more sense in retrospect.

  • @coolcat23
    @coolcat23 3 дня назад

    Great visualisation and explanation of the Lorentz transform. Personally, I need to become clearer on the distinction between time delays caused by spacetime transformations and those caused by time-of-arrival differences. Due to the finite speed of light, changing positions cause differences in time-of-arrival (for a non-moving observer), also affecting perceived simultaneity, but those effects need to be kept apart from the core of special relativity.

  • @francoisfjag4070
    @francoisfjag4070 4 дня назад

    this video series on covariant derivative is a must !!!

  • @partakerofbread
    @partakerofbread 4 дня назад

    Maybe this is a silly question, but when we hear about the equations for hyperbolas we always hear about them equaling one. So, why in this case can we have s in the equation for a hyperbola this value may be larger than one?

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 4 дня назад

      Just as you can have a circle of and radius, you can have a hyperbola of any "s" value. A circle with radius 1 is a special circle called the "unit circle". A hyperbola with s=1 is a special hyperbola called the "unit hyperbola".

    • @partakerofbread
      @partakerofbread 3 дня назад

      @@eigenchris Thank you for clarifying!

  • @playsenge4998
    @playsenge4998 5 дней назад

    oh my god this is amazing

  • @joydeepsarkar3447
    @joydeepsarkar3447 5 дней назад

    If we use an epsilon in front of h_{ij} in the definition of g_{ij} and claim that epsilon<<1 and epsilon ^2 =0, then we don't have to bother about the combinations of "h" which will become<<1 and zero.

  • @kevinmchugh2302
    @kevinmchugh2302 6 дней назад

    Sir, thank you for this series of videos. And also, thank you for your series on general a d special relativity. I've seen them all, and they make Peskin and Schroeder, and Wheeler, Thorne (Gravitation) so much clearer. I will now re-read these texts in light of the clarity you provided in these videos. Bless you sir.

  • @afs4185
    @afs4185 6 дней назад

    why cant one save this to a playlist of their liking (i.e. Lacan) ?

  • @curtischee2532
    @curtischee2532 7 дней назад

    Thanks a lot. I am doing self study on GR and I was only able to get the first Ricci tensor on my own, but I needed your video to get the other 3. You did a fantastic job of organizing the work. I could not get it without your help. Please keep doing videos that show all the mathematical steps. I greatly appreciate it.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 6 дней назад

      Glad you found it helpful. The description has a link to a pdf called the "Catalogue of Spacetimes", and it has the tensors/coefficients for a lot of different spacetime geometries.

  • @albertomontecarlo6231
    @albertomontecarlo6231 7 дней назад

    at minutes 7.48 you said that the distance it’s c2/alpha,,, which is true you are illustrating the diagram with the speed of light c=299792458 but since you are using c=1 you have to make also the distance consistent..it would be 1/alpha

  • @eliasgvinp2141
    @eliasgvinp2141 7 дней назад

    If this is a joke, then my degree in applied mathematics is a joke... and unfunny one 😭

  • @IcarusGravitas
    @IcarusGravitas 8 дней назад

    As a High School Physics Teacher, I always preface everything I say with "This isn't the actual truth, but..."

  • @matejmizak7585
    @matejmizak7585 8 дней назад

    I don't understand why the gamma factor has to be there, like, if v=c, then gamma will go to infinity, of what use will then be gamma to properly scale the coordinate axis'. I would be thankful, if someone explained it to me!

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 8 дней назад

      v=c indicates your reference frame is travelling at the speed of light, which is not possible. It would indicate your time and space axes "overlap" each other on a diagonal line. In special relativity, massive objects can never reach the speed of light. The failure of the coordinate transformation at "v=c" is telling you that.

  • @fggolding
    @fggolding 8 дней назад

    Excelent series of videos, thank you for it

  • @hashdankhog8578
    @hashdankhog8578 8 дней назад

    I read through some of the your replies to comments. god damn you know how to argue

  • @justroomdecor9498
    @justroomdecor9498 8 дней назад

    Damn from calculus to cs..

  • @frozenturtl827
    @frozenturtl827 9 дней назад

    my brain is not big enough to comprehend this fully. i've been watching this video and for the past two weeks trying to understand, but alas i am not this comfortable with linear algebra and complex numbers to throw them together so casually. gotta study up, i hope i can understand this video and the rest of the series soon.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 9 дней назад

      Yeah, this assumes pretty good familiarity with both complex numbers and linear algebra. Are there any particular questions you have, or do you think you just need to study more?

    • @frozenturtl827
      @frozenturtl827 8 дней назад

      @@eigenchris absolutely just need to study more myself, the series is fantastic. thanks mate.

  • @unflexian
    @unflexian 9 дней назад

    one in a million? you would need 137 billion people on earth for that to be true. you mean so much to so many more people than you think. <3

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 9 дней назад

      No only do I not understand voltage, I don't understand math. Thanks for the positive comment, though!

    • @unflexian
      @unflexian 8 дней назад

      @@eigenchris the two sentences were related, i was meaning to say something to the effect of "don't undervalue yourself"

  • @ritikpal1491
    @ritikpal1491 9 дней назад

    Wait. How can we subtend lesser area compared to flat circle? I can only imagine area getting bigger due to a bulge. How come in negative curvature, the area is decreasing?

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 9 дней назад

      The "lesser area" is relative to a constant perimeter. The negative curvature case wastes a lot of perimeter moving up and down, and so it encloses less area.

    • @ritikpal1491
      @ritikpal1491 9 дней назад

      @@eigenchris 🤔I think i get your point. But its hard to imagine.

  • @hamish_todd
    @hamish_todd 9 дней назад

    My guesses for the characters depicted: Founders of quantum mechanics: Einstein Dirac Oppenheimer? Pauli? Lecturer at the start: Sidney Coleman

  • @JoseAntonio-ml8yg
    @JoseAntonio-ml8yg 10 дней назад

    I have learnt so much.... thank you!

  • @thetruemanshow77
    @thetruemanshow77 10 дней назад

    I think you're falling into the trap that science these days isn't political. Given we struggle with things like the replication crisis (especially a problem in medicine and psychology), I think it it's further naive to assume such. Academia, by in large, has a certain political sway. It is interested in promoting certain things, and also interested in making sure certain things don't get investigated at all. Say I wanted to conduct a study asking children undergoing any form of transition to define the term "informed consent". Good luck, lol otherwise people like Chloe Cole wouldn't exist. Science is a tool, used by humans. It isn't this equalizing arbiter of truth, and it can be abused to catastrophic effect. Of course there are more studies in favor of these kind of treatments for children, transgenderism as a point of scientific study is still in its infancy, and it's HUGE money. Medicine isn't even willing to acknowledge sugar for the problem that it is because of the nice scam they have going on with the food industry. WPATH is notorious for churning out tons of bunk studies that can't be replicated or are otherwise unsound according to the scientific method. You can write a million papers about a topic, but it only takes one to debunk them all if it is the truth. Why did EU roll back trans health care for minors literally a month after you published this video? Bigotry? Lol, no, Long term studies (which you don't talk about) show an overall net negative past six years. The number of long term studies are few, again, because it's a NEW FIELD. I think it's important that scientists like you and Sabine chime in on these issues, as "science" is what is being used to push these cultural agendas. However, your video is as equally misleading as Sabine's. There are nuanced cultural and financial forces that all these studies ignore. I read one the comments in this video that taught me something, that transgender dissatisfaction with surgery is actually a result of the quality of surgery, not the surgery itself. Wow, I didn't understand it like that and want to see unhappy people happy. Ok. Let's take it the next logical step, if we aren't currently capable due to lack of scientific progress, why are we carrying out these procedures on children? The technology is new and thus far unsatisfactory, so we should adamantly stay the course?? What I am I missing from this equation other than the implications that treating children as guinea pigs is fine? I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Just to clarify, I think consenting adults should be able to do whatever they want with their bodies! And as long as they respect my identity, I can respect theirs. I can see and respect the amount of effort you put into this video, but you're endlessly treading water at the surface without spending any time diving down into the dark void of truth. So yeah, gobedlygook here, gobedlygook there, remind yourself that humans are more than the particles that sum them up and there is more to life than numbers on a page. Look at the hard truth, and yourself in the mirror and really think about it.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 10 дней назад

      Can you give me some examples of WPATH studies that can't be replicated? Can you give me an example of long term studies that show an overall net negative in the past six years?

    • @thetruemanshow77
      @thetruemanshow77 10 дней назад

      @@eigenchris WPATH is a joke, plenty of professionals have laid it out all over the internet. Someone with your research skills can surely figure it out. Maybe? Long term studies into trans mental health within the past six years are obviously going to be rare, considering the funding is all going towards short term studies, and that this fad is less than a decade old. The strongest and oldest is this one from Sweden. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043071/ My mistake in being so specific about the six year thing, I was quoting Scott Newgent, another person with a lot more expertise in this stuff than me. You would probably have the best luck in Europe, as they are the ones rolling back this kind of care for minors based on what they are seeing. Hope you are a polyglot!

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 10 дней назад

      I saw a message of yours in my notifications hinting that I deleted your comment. I didn't delete it, so I'm not sure what happened there. Unfortunately notifications don't let me see the entire message, so I only see the name "Scott Newgent" and not much else. I would be interested in the primary source for what he says if you have it. Unfortunately youtube doesn't like links, so you would have to share the name/author of the paper for me to google.

  • @ritikpal1491
    @ritikpal1491 10 дней назад

    Damn, this was really nice. I think all physics students who are taught GR should first be taught these things rather then just making them learn index gymnastics of the tensor. This was really insightfull and i probably would come back to these lectures again and again (since i binged watched it from the start without carefully following the calculations). Thank you so much for taking your time to do this. I am following lectures on GR by Susskind and I couldn't digest covariant derivative. Someone in the comments suggested your playlist, and i am glad to have followed it. I wont continue from here on, as i only needed to understand covariant derivatives. But if i ever require the concepts from later lectures, surely i would continue. Edit: After typing this comment, i checked the topics of other lectures, and now i really want to watch them all (I really dont have time, as i have planned to finish a lot lectures before my holiday ends.)

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 10 дней назад

      Yeah, the Christoffel symbols and covariant derivative took me way too long to understand. I ran into the same problem of learning "index gymnastics", but not really understanding what's going on. They main trick I've learned in this playlist and my relativity playlist is that tensors are much easier when you write out both the components and the basis. Writing transformation rules using only the components is possible, but not very enlightening most of the time.

  • @sandhyaprabhu6996
    @sandhyaprabhu6996 10 дней назад

    I am crying like hell. I am now asking who am I 😢😢

  • @narfwhals7843
    @narfwhals7843 11 дней назад

    In the Galilean example, you don't explicitly bring up a medium. But the "velocity of the car according to Einstein" is the cars velocity relative to the medium, right? Since Einstein is "stationary" and the speed of sound is different for different observers. Does this make a relevant difference or would a simple Galileo Transformation still do the trick if Einstein was moving relative to the medium? In the Galilean Doppler formula, we explicitly have the velocities of the source and receiver relative to the medium. f0(c+-v1)/(c-+v2)

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 11 дней назад

      It doesn't really matter what speed the medium is travelling at, I don't think. In that formula you gave, you could change the velocity of all the terms by some constant, and the constants would cancel anyway. The concept of frequency is frame-dependent, so there's no "objective" value.

    • @narfwhals7843
      @narfwhals7843 10 дней назад

      @@eigenchris There should be a qualitative difference between moving relative to the medium and not. If the source is stationary but the receiver is moving at the speed of sound away from the source, this should be the same as infinite redshift, since the sound will never reach the receiver. But if source and receiver are moving away from each other at half the speed of sound, the receiver will still receive a finitely redshifted (by 1/3, I think) wave. For velocities that are small compared to the propagation speed, this is probably irrelevant, and we can approximate by 1-β. I'm not quite sure how we get away with using the 1-β approximation in the relativistic case before tagging on the time dilation term...

  • @unfulfilling_entertainer
    @unfulfilling_entertainer 11 дней назад

    It's funny how Sabine said academia fell out of her favor so she turned to making videos on RUclips. Yet the accuracy of her videos is on a decline. Someone mentioned their disappointment on her video on autism in the comments and I also find her video on capitalism to be completely wrong. I wonder if academia really failed her or the other way around. Surely the community has little tolerance if you sound like you don't know what you're talking about(she doesn't).

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 11 дней назад

      I think there's a number of fair reasons to criticize academia--people other than Sabine have done so. My problem with Sabine is when she starts talking about things outside her area of expertise as if she's an unbiased expert. A lot of her physics videos are pretty good (granted, I haven't been watching her more recent stuff). But when she tries her hand at other random topics, she comes across as pretty uninformed.

  • @aman-oi3zv
    @aman-oi3zv 11 дней назад

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ritikpal1491
    @ritikpal1491 11 дней назад

    Arent there infinite number of lines in a contour? What decides the density of the stacks, or the spacing between stacks?

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 11 дней назад

      You could argue there are an infinite number of contours for every real number. You could also say a vector field has an infinite number of vectors, one for each coordinate point. But when it comes to visualizing contours and vector fields, you typically use whatever scale is most convenient for visualizing.

    • @ritikpal1491
      @ritikpal1491 10 дней назад

      @@eigenchris Thanks for the reply. So how many contour line of stacks should we draw? What decides the spacing between two contour lines. (Or what decides the spacing between stacks)

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 10 дней назад

      @@ritikpal1491 You could draw 1 contour line for every time the function changes by a value of "1". That way, you can count how many times a vector fields the "sheets" easily. But if a function changes very quickly or very slowly, this might not be the best visualization. If you're dealing with a function that looks like a mountain that's 2500 units tall, maybe you could draw a contour for every 500 units or 250 units. I feel like I'm just repeating myself. Does what I'm saying make sense?

    • @ritikpal1491
      @ritikpal1491 10 дней назад

      @@eigenchris So, we can make a contour line for every unit change in the function. That makes sense if you are consistently using this measure. If you change this rule for steeper functions, then wont it make the number of stacks passing through a vector inconsistent? If a function changes rapidly, i expect more number of stacks to pass through the vector.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 10 дней назад

      @@ritikpal1491 If you draw a contpur for every 500 units, them each contour is worth 500 when it is pierced by a vector. In theory there's a contour for every possible real number value for the function. When ones you actually draw out are a matter of convenience for visualizarion.

  • @raulbeienheimer
    @raulbeienheimer 11 дней назад

    Would be correct to say the following: given some linear map that transforms a vector v from V into w from W, that can be represented by a matrix. The column basis vectors of the matrix span a subspace; the column space of the matrix. The set of all linear maps that meet compatibility properties (what you call linearity) forms a vector space itself: Hom(V,W). Can we say that Hom(V,W) is a tensor product space?

  • @matthewpalmer6527
    @matthewpalmer6527 12 дней назад

    I'm in Topology right now. Others may not know how strangely accurate and well-paced this video is.

  • @raulbeienheimer
    @raulbeienheimer 12 дней назад

    To define Tensor as a collection of vectors and covectors combined toghether using the Tensor Product is actrually problematic: Both vectors, and Covectors are Tensors themselves, and it is not particularly usefull to define a vector in terms of a collection of vector-coventors... bla bla..

  • @escthedark3709
    @escthedark3709 12 дней назад

    Personally, I see the scientific consensus on transgender anything as worth about as much as a net for holding water. For one, gender is a social construct, and studying transgender anything will inherently be fairly unclear, messy, and subject to interpretation. For two, it's a very divisive culture war issue, and any scientific results that are remotely conclusive will be heavily attacked one way or the other as coming from bigotry or criticized for contradicting "settled science" or some other nonsense that is unscientific in nature. For three, scientists are biased too, and that will influence what they choose to research and what makes it past peer review. Vaccines are far more conclusively understood scientifically and yet they're not conclusively agreed upon by the general public. This is far less clearly understood scientifically, so expecting it to be remotely agreed upon by the general public is somewhat absurd imo.

  • @busragull1944
    @busragull1944 12 дней назад

    Thank you!

  • @Amanpreetkaur-cp4fs
    @Amanpreetkaur-cp4fs 12 дней назад

    😂 good

  • @PK-ru8dg
    @PK-ru8dg 12 дней назад

    Are there any particular textbooks that you used for these videos (or that you would recommend in general)? Amazing series btw.

    • @eigenchris
      @eigenchris 12 дней назад

      I read some parts of "Group Theory in Physics" by Wu-Ki Tang, butsometimes it was pretty terse and a bit hard to follow. The wikipedia article on "Representation Theory of the Lorentz Algebra" isn't bad either. For this video I did have to sit down and figure out a lot of the details on my own though. I didn't realize gamma_5 could be used to project out left/right circularly polarized waves until I started playing around with the algebra, so that was a nice surprise. Most other sources I've seen use the hodge start or levi-civita symbol, but those don't work as nicely.

  • @epicbruhmoment6985
    @epicbruhmoment6985 12 дней назад

    I quote "Hooray! A task!" About once a week

  • @Chris-xh4mu
    @Chris-xh4mu 12 дней назад

    What's a good textbook for mathematical vector and tensor analysis at the undergraduate level? I've been trying to find one, but usually I only find vector calculus textbooks (i.e late part of calc 3.) or a book written mostly for physicists and engineers.

  • @BiswajitBhattacharjee-up8vv
    @BiswajitBhattacharjee-up8vv 13 дней назад

    In your previous video on spinors you have introduced two concept ,in case of two sphere alike , they are positive by Nature and in video of spin as spinor in SG experiments outcome oriented in different axis of space orientation an and probabilistic distribution of states an element " i" to make a sense of different dimension. A member of complex projective line , those spinor a special transformation unknown to to known.

  • @DrBrianKeating
    @DrBrianKeating 13 дней назад

  • @DrBrianKeating
    @DrBrianKeating 13 дней назад

    Awesome content even for my graduate students Thanks

  • @Amanpreetkaur-cp4fs
    @Amanpreetkaur-cp4fs 13 дней назад

    🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉😮