Our classroom was equipped with an electronic "smartboard" in place of a conventional blackboard. The recorded smartboards are linked below in pdf format, listed by date. These copies are provided here as a service for my students.
Two caveats:
(1) these are reproductions of the classroom boards, and usually have not been edited for accuracy or legibility;
(2) the files are often large (between 1 and 10 MB). The smartboard -> pdf conversion efficiency is low.
Day 1: Introduction (10 Jan 2005)
Day 2: Different Geometries (14 Jan 2005)
Day 3: Newtonian Gravity (18 Jan 2005)
Day 4: Newtonian Gravity, cont'd (20 Jan 2005)
Day 5: The variational calculus, pt. 1 (21 Jan 2005)
Day 6: The variational calculus, pt. 2 (24 Jan 2005)
Day 7: The variational calculus, pt. 3 (corrected smartboard) (27 Jan 2005)
Day 8: Introduction to Special Relativity (28 Jan 2005)
Day 9: Introduction to Special Relativity, continued (1 Feb 2005)
Day 10: The Line Element of SR and the Light Cone (2 Feb 2005)
Day 11: Proper time (along a path) and the Twin Paradox (9 Feb 2005)
Day 12: Lorentz Transformations (10 Feb 2005)
Day 13: Introduction to SR mechanics: four-vectors (14 Feb 2005)
Day 14: SR kinematics: four-velocity (15 Feb 2005)
Day 15: SR dynamics: 4-momentum and 4-force (17 Feb 2005)
Day 16: SR dynamics: the 4-force continued (22 Feb 2005)
Day 17: Free particle paths in flat spacetime (25 Feb 2005)
Day 18: The wave 4-vector for a light ray (28 Feb 2005)
Day 19: Doppler effect and relativistic beaming (3 Mar 2005)
Day 20: The pole vaulter problem and the Equivalence Principle (4 Mar 2005)
Day 21: The Equivalence Principle (Einstein's 1911 paper) (7 Mar 2005)
Day 22: WPR 1 (Midterm Exam 1) (10 Mar 2005)
Spring Leave: 10 - 20 March 2005
Day 23: Describing curved spacetime: the metric (22 Mar 2005)
Day 24: Local inertial frames (23 Mar 2005)
Day 25: Light cones and timelike curves in curved spacetime (24 Mar 2005)
Day 26: Length, area, 3-volume and 4-volume (30 Mar 2005)
Day 27: A problem session (1 Apr 2005)
Day 28: Homework help and wormhole geometry, pt 1 (4 Apr 2005)
Day 29: Wormhole geometry, pt 2 (5 Apr 2005)
Day 30: Vectors in curved spacetime, intro to geodesics (6 Apr 2005)
Day 31: The geodesic equation, pt 1 (11 Apr 2005)
Day 32: The geodesic equation, pt 2 (13 Apr 2005)
Day 33: Implications of the geodesic equation and Riemann normal coordinates (15 Apr 2005)
Day 34: An example: a geodesic in the wormhole geometry (19 Apr 2005)
Day 35: Intro to Killing vector fields (21 Apr 2005)
Day 36: Killing vectors and conservation laws in Schwarzschild spacetime (27 Apr 2005)
Day 37: Gravitational redshift in Schwarzschild spacetime (28 Apr 2005)
Day 38: Orbital mechanics in Schwarzschild spacetime, pt 1: conservation laws (29 Apr 2005)
Day 39: Orbital mechanics in Schwarzschild spacetime, pt 2: the effective potential (3 May 2005)
Day 41: Orbital mechanics in Schwarzschild spacetime, pt 4: plunge orbits (5 May 2005)
Day 42: Tidal forces in Newtonian mechanics and Schwarzschild spacetime (9 May 2005)
Day 43: Escape velocity in Schwarzschild spacetime (12 May 2005)
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