What are covariant derivatives, and what is the intuition behind/for covariant derivatives?
64914
What is the affine connection, and what is the intuition behind/for affine connection?
38613
Intuitive understanding of the elements in the stress-energy tensor
88854
Simple way to understand what derivative is
89004
Where does the partial derivative come from in Sakurai's derivation of the momentum operator?
549
What is an intuitive explanation of the Hopf fibration and the twisted Hopf fibration?
12172
help me understand derivatives and their purpose
100283
How to understand the notion of a differential of a function
983
Use partial or covariant derivatives when deriving equations of a field theory?
68523
Am I doing this right? Finding the time derivative of expectation value of momentum
105398
Physical intuition for higher order derivatives
56429
Extension of partial derivatives and the definition of $C^k(\overline{\Omega})$
120474
Does the lagrangian contain all the information about the representations of the fields in QFT?
67246
How would you explain covariance to someone who understands only the mean?
117944
what is the use of derivatives
58273
What justifies this calculation of the derivative of a matrix function?
68310
Why can partial derivatives be exchanged?
69378
The derivative of $x!$ and its continuity