Lecture based on reveal.js

This repository contains slides presented in the weekly "Group Theory in Nuclear and Particle Physics" lecture (the 10th lecture) at Ruhr-University Bochum during the winter semester of 21/22. The lecture is a master's level course for physicists and mathematicians.

In this documentation, you can find

• details and brief instructions about the used packages,
• the concept behind the slides and customizations made to match the weekly lecture schedule

Modifications

These slides are based on reveal.js. The repository is already configured to load dependencies and style files automatically. This configuration is implemented by the index.html file, which loads the content of the slides via the <section data-markdown="slides/lecture-10/*.html"> tags. The source code for individual slides can be found in the slides/lecture-10/*.html files. If you want to update the slides, adjust the respective slide HTML. If you want to add or remove slides, adjust or add corresponding section tags in the index.html file. It is also possible to load markdown files instead of HTML files. Both the markdown and HTML versions can render latex (wrapped with a single $for inline latex and a double $$ for equation environments).

In the language of reveal.js, individual slides are called <sections> (html tags) and animated objects within slides are called class="fragment" (html attributes). Contents like headings, paragraphs, lists, and images follow the standard HTML or markdown syntax.

Run it

The slides can be viewed on a local machine without installing dependencies; they are already included in the static folder (no additional npm install is needed). I.e., the presentation can be directly viewed in any browser (index.html) after cloning the repository.

Because of the current file layout (slides are separated into several files and included by index.html), to properly access files, you have to launch a local HTTP server with

python3 -m http.server
# or
npx http-server

and visiting http://{ip-address}:8000/ (where the IP-address is usually 127.0.0.1, localhost, or 0.0.0.0; the above command tells you where to look).

This server dependence can be circumvented by removing the data-markdown="slides/lecture-10/0-about.html" attributes in index.html and, instead, placing the file's content inside the <section> tags.

Components

• Creating audio files and the voice-over
• Recording and embedding videos
• Animating vector graphics
• Custom CSS and visual improvements
• Embedding slides into other frameworks (like Moodle)