Robert Geroch Course Materials

Short Topics

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These are shorter treatments (some merely a page or two) of topics that arose in various courses. The students for which these were originally intended ranged in level from freshmen to advanced graduate students. Items marked “scanned” were converted from physical originals.

Hilbert Spaces of Functions (2 pp, 0.03 MB)
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Basis for L^2[R^n] (3 pp, 0.05 MB)
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Adjoint of an Operator (1 pp, 0.3 MB, scanned)
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Self-Adjoint and Unitary Operators (1pp, 0.1 MB)
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Unbounded Operators (4 pp, 1.0 MB, scanned)
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Tensor Products of Operators (1 pp, 0.08 MB)
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Direct Sum, Tensor Product of Hilbert Spaces (2 pp, 0.7 MB, scanned)
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Ray-Evolution on Hilbert Spaces (4 pp, 0.05 MB)
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Traceclass Operators (2 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Spectral Theorem (3 pp, 0.4 MB, scanned)
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Hamiltonian Evolution (4 pp, 0.5 MB, scanned)
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Heisenberg Formulation (2 pp, 0.3 MB, scanned)
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Superselection Principles (2 pp, 0.6 MB, scanned)
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A Watched Pot Never Boils (4 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Path Integrals (19 pp, 0.2 MB)
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Feynmann Path-Integral Example (3 pp 0.1 MB)
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Uncertainty Relations (2 pp, 0.2 MB, scanned)
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Quantum Mechanics of a Charged Particle (3 pp, 0.1 MB)
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You Can’t Observe the Quantum State (4 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Spinors (4 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Spinor Algebra (4 pp, 1.3 MB, scanned)
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Conducting Perfect Fluid (4 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Conducting Fluids in Space-time (3 pp, 0.03 MB)
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Fibre Bundles (4 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Fourier Analysis (7 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Linear Algebra (9 pp, 1.2 MB, scanned)
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Manifolds (5 pp, 0.5 MB, scanned)
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Nets on Topological Spaces (1 pp, 0.03 MB)
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Non-Standard Analysis (6 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Distribution Functions (10 pp, 1.2 MB, scanned)
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Entropy Increase in Kinetic Theory (2 pp, 0.6 MB, scanned)
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Regular Distributions (4 pp, 0.06 MB)
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Representations of Lie Algebras (10 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Classification of 3-dimensional Lie Algebras (2 pp, 1.0 MB, scanned)
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Representations of Groups (49 pp, 5.7 MB, scanned)
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Lie Groups, Lie Algebras (10 pp, 1.4 MB, scanned)
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Thermodynamics (10 pp, 1.1 MB, scanned)
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RSA Encryption (2 pp, 0.03 MB)
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Wave Equation (2 pp, 0.03 MB)
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Spherical Harmonics; Multipoles (13 pp, 1.3 MB, scanned)
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Calculus in R^n (2 pp, 0.04 MB)
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Calculus of Variations (6 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Ordinary Differential Equations (3 pp, 0.04 MB)
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Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics (6 pp, 0.06 MB)
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Order-of-Magnitude Estimates (11 pp, 0.08 MB)
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Measure Theory (16 pp, 0.1 MB)
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Lebesque Measure (6 pp, 0.07 MB)
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Measure Spaces (3 pp, 0.04 MB)
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Probability Measures (2 pp, 0.04 MB)
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Godel’s Theorem (18 pp, 0.17 MB)
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Thinking About Physics (3 pp, 0.3 MB, scanned)
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Mathematics (4 pp, 0.1 MB)
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