The following website contains worksheets written in an early version of Maple.

http://www.yorku.ca/marko/ComPhys/

I would like to import worksheets 5.1 and 5.2 and work with them in Maple 2016. Is this possible?

Clicking on the worksheet id, e.g. 5.1, displays an .mws worksheet written in HTML which is not supported as an import format.

I am beginning to study Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory - The Theoretical Minimum by Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman.

The book's notation for a 4-Vector is X superscript mu. Its components are X superscripts 0, 1, 2 and 3 which, in sequence, refer to t(ime), x, y and z.

Proper time, tau, is defined using these vector components in that sequence.

The book's notation for 4-Velocity is U superscript mu with components U superscripts 0 thru 3. U superscript zero is defined to be the derivative of X superscript zero with respect to tau i.e. dt/dtau and the remaining U components follow this pattern.

As a beginner in this area, which Maple packages/commands would most easily and clearly implement this notation in a Maple worksheet? 

Why does solve not find the value of xp = sqrt(1-v^2) in this worksheet?

SpecialRelativity.mw

Reference: Special Relativity and Classical Field Theory. Authors: Leonard Susskind and Art Friedman

This solve command produces both unconditional and conditional solutions.

Is there a way to have it only output unconditional solutions, or, failing that, is there a way to select the unconditional solutions from its output?

solve({2*x+y+z = 3, x^2+y^2+z^2 = 3}, [x, y, z], real, parametric)

The linked worksheet displays the geodesic between two points on a surface z(x,y).

Surfacepath.mw

Gradient descent will find a stepped approximate path of fastest descent between the points, but is there a way to find a function defining an exact i.e. smooth path of fastest descent? If so, how can a precise time of fastest descent be determined?