SCHEDULE
MTH 434/534 — Winter 2024


This is a rough schedule from a previous year (with lectures MWF), showing which topic we will cover when.
The topic links refer to my online book.   

  Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri
Week 1
(Jan)
Introduction,
Polar Coords
 
 
Motivation,
Dot & Cross
 
 
Differential forms,
Higher Rank, Products
Week 2
(Jan)
Determinants,
Pictures
 
 
 
   Tensors,
Inner Products,
Polar Coords II
 
 
 
   Bases,
Metric Tensor,
Signature
Week 3
(Jan)
MLK Day
 
 
 
   Higher Rank,
Orientation,
Schwarz Inequality
 
 
 
   Hodge Dual,
Euclidean &
Minkowski Spaces,
Week 4
(Jan)
   Hodge Dual II,
Dot & Cross,
Pseudovectors
 
 
 
   Gradient,
Exterior Deriv,
Div & Curl
 
 
 
   Gradient,
Exterior Deriv,
Div & Curl
Week 5
(Feb)
   Laplacian,
Properties,
Product Rules
 
 
 
Orthogonal Coords,
Div, Grad, Curl
 
 
 
Maxwell's Eqs I,
Maxwell's Eqs II,
Week 6
(Feb)
Maxwell's Eqs III
 
 
 
 
Review
 
 
 
 
Midterm
 
Week 7
(Feb)
Go over midterm
 
 
 
   Integrals,
Integrands,  
Stokes' Theorem
 
 
Stokes' Theorem
Stokes' Corollaries,
Week 8
(Feb)
   Spheres,
Topology,
Polar Coords II
 
 
 
Vector Derivatives  
Connections,

 
 

Connections,  
Levi-Civita
Week 9
(Mar)
   Polar Coords III,
Curves,
Surfaces

 
 

Curvature,
Bianchi Identities
 
 
   Geodesic Curvature,
Geodesic Triangles,
Gauss-Bonnet Thm
Week 10
(Mar)
The Torus
 
 
 
 

TBA
 
 
 
 
Review