I am trying to achieve an intuitive (non-mathematical) understanding of parallel transport on the unit sphere.
A vector parallel transported along a unit sphere's geodesic clearly maintains as constant its initial orientation vis-a-vis the geodesic i.e. with regard to its moving bases vectors.

Dr. Lopez's application "Visualizing a Parallel Field in a Curved Manifold" displays animation of the parallel transport of a vector along a latitude, which is not a geodesic. As seen by an observer moving with it, the vector rotates clockwise with regard to its moving bases vectors. The rate of rotation increases with higher latitudes.

Then to what is the transported vector maintaining parallelism?

I have uploaded a Maple 2016 worksheet Parallel_transport_on_the_unit_sphere.mw which mostly copies Dr. Lopez's application and, for additional clarity, adds the unit sphere, the moving bases vectors and the moving tangent plane to his display.

In a Maple Primes reply by Joel Riel on Sept. 14, 2011 he included the following command referring to warnings issued from a dsolve, numeric command having events containing a halt action:

_Env_in_maplet := true:  # incantation to suppress integrator warnings

Where can if find explanatory help for his command and any others of a similar nature? 

The help text for dsolve,numeric,events describes many kinds of triggers and actions and other event specifications, but shows only a very limited selection of examples of these possibilities.

Please tell me of any sources containing extensive examples of the wide variety of available specifications and the problems they are useful in solving.

Can Maple determine the value of DthetaZero such that the solution to the ODE, for some specific value of t, simultaneously provides the two values theta(t)=Pi and diff(theta(t),t)=0?

sol:=dsolve({4*sin(theta(t))*cos(theta(t))-9.8100*sin(theta(t))-(diff(theta(t), t, t)) = 0, theta(0) = 2*Pi*(1/3), D(theta)(0) = DthetaZero}, numeric)

odeplot(sol,[t,theta(t),diff(theta(t),t)],t=0..5) for trial values of DthetaZero shows that the desired value is

1.0340*Pi <DthetaZero<1.0345*Pi.

I am trying to duplicate the answer to a problem of the nutation of a spinning top. The problem is number 6.1.3 in the book Computer Algebra Recipes for Classical Mechanics by Richard Ens and George McGuire.

TopSC := `<,>`(5*sin(z)*exp(-(Pi-z)/(1.5)), 0, z) for z = 0..Pi

Spacecurve TopSC, when rotated about the z axis, generates the surface of revolution of the top.

The solution requires knowing the moments of inertia (MI) of the top about the z axis and the x or y axis.

Does the following integral correctly calculate the MI about the z axis?

int(2*Pi*TopSC[1]*(TopSC[1]^2), [z = 0 .. z, z = 0 .. Pi])

What sequence of Maple 2016 commands will calculate the top's MI about the x or y axis?