Lec 10. Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation: General Relativity 6

UCI Physics 255 Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation (Spring 2014)
Lec 10. Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation -- General Relativity -- Part 6
Instructor: Herbert W. Hamber, Ph.D

License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Recorded May 01, 2014.

Description: "Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation" is taught at UCI as Physics 255. Particle Mechanics in the Presence of Gravity. Fermi-Walker Transport. Electrodynamics in Covariant Form. Conserved Energy-Momentum Tensor. Hydrodynamic Equations for a Perfect Fluid. Riemann Curvature Tensor. Parallel Transport Around an Infinitesimal Closed Loop. Gravitation versus Curvilinear Coordinates. Algebraic Properties of the Riemann Tensor. Differential (Bianchi) Identities.

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1:04 I don't think, that v^i is a vector.
It's the component of a vector, because V =Σ v^i e_i
A Vector is a tupel that has a direction.
v^i hasn't a direction! It's just a function, that you can derive.