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52:40- Variational principle for geodesics
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Levi-Civita Connection, Christoffel Symbols, and Geodesics - Lecture 7
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- 1 00:00- Covariant derivative and connection
- 2 04:30- Transformation law for connection coefficients
- 3 16:40- Levi-Civita connection, Christoffel symbols
- 4 28:23- Locally flat coordinates
- 5 33:29- Properties of the covariant derivative
- 6 37:29- Parallel transport
- 7 42:29- Geodesics
- 8 52:28- Break
- 9 52:40- Variational principle for geodesics
- 10 01:09:09- Christoffels on a 2-sphere
- 11 01:28:12- Christoffels in the Newtonian approximation
