Lectures are augmented with exercise sessions, which you are expected to come to with the problems already solved and present them to your classmates. You are not graded on this, but the experience is invaluable in actually learning the material. The course uses [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation Einstein Summation Notation] and those unfamiliar with this form of mathematics may find even simple questions daunting at first without some assistance from the teaching assistant. | Lectures are augmented with exercise sessions, which you are expected to come to with the problems already solved and present them to your classmates. You are not graded on this, but the experience is invaluable in actually learning the material. The course uses [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein_notation Einstein Summation Notation] and those unfamiliar with this form of mathematics may find even simple questions daunting at first without some assistance from the teaching assistant. |