Modern Physics: General Relativity

Video Lectures

Displaying all 12 video lectures.
Lecture 1
Introduction to the Theory of Gravity
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Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity. Recorded September 22, 2008 at Stanford University.
Lecture 2
Dark Energy and Gauss's Law
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In this lecture, Professor Leonard Susskind of the Stanford University Physic's Department discusses dark energy, the tendency of it to tear atoms apart, and Gauss's Law.
Lecture 3
Field of Tensor Calculus
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In this lecture, Leonard Susskind continues his discussion of Einstein's theory of general relativity. He also gives a broad overview of the field of tensor calculus and it's relation to the curvature and geometry of space-time.
Lecture 4
Covariant and Contra Variant Indices
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October 13, 2008, Stanford's Felix Bloch Professor of Physics, Leonard Susskind, discusses covariant and contra variant indices, tensor arithmetic, algebra and calculus, and the geometry of expanding space time.
Lecture 5
Tensor Calculus
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Lecture 6
Geodesics
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Lecture 7
Curvature
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Lecture 8
Deriving a Curvature
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Lecture 9
Comparing Newton's and Einsteins' Equations
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Lecture 10
Space: Four Dimensions
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Lecture 11
Accelerated Coordinates
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Lecture 12
Concerning Black Holes
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