Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Video covering examples of how to transform a contravariant tensor and covariant tensor (of rank 1, so a vector) when there is a coordinate transformation. For the covariant tensor, we even use that coordinate transformation to find the general solution of a 1st-order PDE!

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Pre-requisites: Previous videos in this playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdgVBOaXkb9D6zw47gsrtE5XqLeRPh27_

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