Lecture 1 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity. Recorded September 22, 2008 at Stanford University.

1. Introduction to the Theory of Gravity
2. Dark Energy and Gauss's Law
3. Field of Tensor Calculus
4. Covariant and Contra Variant Indices
5. Tensor Calculus
6. Geodesics
7. Curvature
8. Deriving a Curvature
9. Comparing Newton's and Einsteins' Equations
10. Space: Four Dimensions
11. Accelerated Coordinates
12. Concerning Black Holes

In this course, Professor Leonard Susskind gives 12 video lectures on Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fourth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. The topics covered in this course focus on quantum mechanics. The course is taught by Leonard Susskind, the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.