There are 16 pages in Specialist Topics:

• Differential Forms & Lie Derivatives (9171 hits)
  Motivation, intuition and formal development of differential forms
• Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics (5237 hits)
  The dual life of entropy
• Histogram Errors (40515 hits)
  Neat example of how to think the right way in maths
• Hopf Fibration (5589 hits)
  An explicit coordinate map for the representation of the three-sphere as a circle fibred over the two-sphere
• N mistakes you really shouldn't make with statistics (6635 hits)
  Or, a checklist before you publish that article
• Notions of Implication (5641 hits)
  Subtleties in logic
• Rarita Schwinger (Spin 3/2) Fields (13997 hits)
  An introduction to the strange things that are spin 3/2 fields
• Representation Theory and Symmetries (4983 hits)
  An overview of why physicists care about representation theory, and some of the key concepts
• Separation of Variables (4769 hits)
  A discussion ranging from the abstract theory of Stone-Weierstrass to the practicalities of solving problems
• Spin Quantization, Double Covers and the Dirac Cup Trick (4628 hits)
  An outline of the subtleties which can arise in applying representation theory to non-simply-connected Lie groups
• Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking (5991 hits)
  The phenomenon underlying the Higgs mechanism - from intuition and mathematics
• Tensor (Direct) Products vs. Direct Sums (23494 hits)
  Clearing up a little confusion
• The Higgs Mechanism (6439 hits)
  From the intuition through to the mathematics
• Vielbeins, metrics and curvature (7907 hits)
  An introduction to and overview of thinking about metrics in terms of vielbeins
• Warped Products and Conformal Rescalings (4732 hits)
  A cheat sheet
• What is spin anyway? (4619 hits)
  A couple of introductions to the notion of spin