References to some of the supplementary material mentioned at tonight's meeting

Thanks to everyone who came tonight and participated in the discussion!

To follow up on a few links and mentions from tonight's meetup:

Gilbert Strang's Linear Algebra video lectures can be accessed (along with a lot of other great material at MIT) through the MIT Open Course Ware site.
His video lectures can be accessed particularly through the following address: http://ocw.mit.edu/Oc...
They're also alternately available on iTunes through iTunesU/MIT/.

Leonard Suskind's physics lectures from Stanford can be found on iTunes in iTunesU/Stanford or you can visit them through youtube at the following links:
Classical Mechanics
Quantum Mechanics
Special Relativity
Who needs Britney Spears on your iPod or iPhone when you can have Strang and Suskind lectures instead!?


To follow up on our discussion of tensors (and in increasing order of difficulty):
A quick and easy introduction to tensors by R. Sharipov can be found here.

Also JC Kolecki's "An Introduction to Tensors for Students of Physics and Engineering" can be downloaded as a .pdf from the NASA website. It's a bit more technical than Sharipov's, but will give everyone another perspective.

Kip Thorne gives a great tensor introduction in Lecture 4 of his Gravitational Wave course.
Since he writes on the blackboard, the higher the resolution you download, the better.

The group theory book which discusses the "bird tracks" diagrams seen in Penrose's chapter 12 can be found for free online and then clicking on "webbook" on the upper left.

http://groups.google.... has information, links, and even .pdf and .djvu copies of several textbooks regarding physics and mathematics in the "files" section (including Strang's Linear Algebra text.) [Note: Some files may require you to have Adobe's Acrobat .pdf reader or the .djvu reader you can obtain from http://djvu.org/... by clicking on the "Get DJVU" link on the lower right.] Feel free to browse the site and discussions there for a wealth of information relating to some of the math and physics we've been discussing. Those who wish to join us for our Quantum Mechanics or Lie Groups/Algebras studies should request to join the group.

I also highly recommend that everyone (especially those just joining us) review back over some of the message board discussions here on meetup.com from the last couple of months for other additional information you may have missed.

I hope you all find these sources helpful in your reading. Please let me know if there is anything you heard mentioned but which isn't included here or if you have any trouble finding and/or accessing any information above.

If you have questions, comments, or information of your own to share, please don't hesitate to post it here on the message board.

Bestest,
Chris