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Gravitational Waves, with Kip Thorne
Course Description
Caltech's Physics 237-2002: Gravitational Waves
A Web-Based Course organized and Designed by Kip S. Thorne, Mihai Bondarescu and Yanbei Chen.
This course contains all the materials from a graduate-student-level course on Gravitational Waves taught at the California Institute of Technology, January through May of 2002. The materials include Quicktime videos of the lectures, lists of suggested and supplementary reading, copies of some of the readings, many exercises, and solutions to all exercises. The video files are so large that it may not be possible to stream them from most sites, but they can be downloaded. Alternatively, the course materials on DVD's can be borrowed via Interlibrary Loan from the Caltech Library (click on CLAS, then on Call Number, then enter QC179.T56 2002 ).
Questions and issues about this course and website can be directed to Mihai Bondarescu or Yanbei Chen.
- - Part A - Gravitational-Wave Theory and Sources
- - Part B - Gravitational-Wave Detectors - original outline
- - Part B - Gravitational-Wave Detectors - alternative outline with the lectures reordered more logically
- - Course Materials
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Video Lectures & Study Materials
Visit the official course website for more study materials: http://elmer.caltech.edu/ph237/
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they pretty much NAILED IT!
the videos are not working
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They have found neutron stars that go faster than 750
revolutions a second a lot faster and they stayed together.
But interesting lessons still not sure about
gravity though I think Einstein was wrong.
Thank you for sharing the material.