Physics on a Wiki
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A personal research wiki at deferentialgeometry.org stores physics notes as one long HTML page synced to a server, using JSMath for equations and a JavaScript wiki engine; it contains a few hundred pages mostly of equations, has students emailing thanks, and maintains a $100 bounty (via fqxi) for finding three misplaced minus signs. The system proves portable, searchable, and useful for building linked definitions (connection → one-form → tangent vector).
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Open science on the web
- 1:01Personal physics Wiki demo
- 3:27Research notes as a web
- 5:55Math display in the Wiki
- 7:20Wiki for science collaboration
- 8:46Future of digital collaboration
- 9:51Wiki content portability
- 10:31Q&A
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