Christoffel symbols evaluate to zero

[Zach Elgood]

I recently started up a new notebook on xact and have come across an issue which I am unsure how to solve. Doing a very simple Schwarzschild calculation, I get that all the Christoffel symbols are zero, which is clearly incorrect. 

[Leo Stein]

Dear Zach,

Note that r and theta are scalar functions on the manifold, and thus need square brackets [] after them when appearing in calculations.

Leo

On Thu, May 26, 2016 at 11:19 AM, Zach Elgood <zache...@gmail.com> wrote:

I recently started up a new notebook on xact and have come across an issue which I am unsure how to solve. Doing a very simple Schwarzschild calculation, I get that all the Christoffel symbols are zero, which is clearly incorrect. 

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[Zach Elgood]

Thank you, that was a very silly mistake on my part. Also, when the Christoffel symbols are calculated, they appear to be of the first kind. Is there a way to calculate those of the second kind. Obviously you can simply multiply by the metric, but I was wondering if there was a build in method, as I can only seem to find those of the first kind.