MIT 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2020
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1 modules • 23 lessons • 30.3 hours of video
MIT 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2020
23 lessons
• 30.3 hours
MIT 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2020
23 lessons
• 30.3 hours
- 1. Introduction and the geometric viewpoint on physics. 01:08:29
- 2. Introduction to tensors. 01:19:10
- 3. Tensors continued. 01:11:41
- 4. Volumes and volume elements; conservation laws. 01:19:29
- 5. The stress energy tensor and the Christoffel symbol. 01:20:36
- 6. The principle of equivalence. 01:20:06
- 7. Principle of equivalence continued; parallel transport. 01:21:48
- 8. Lie transport, Killing vectors, tensor densities. 01:16:14
- 9. Geodesics. 01:20:58
- 10. Spacetime curvature. 01:20:53
- 11. More on spacetime curvature. 01:19:54
- 12. The Einstein field equation. 01:17:40
- 13. The Einstein field equation (variant derivation). 01:18:33
- 14. Linearized gravity I: Principles and static limit. 01:14:40
- 15. Linearized gravity II: Dynamic sources 01:15:45
- 16. Gravitational radiation I 01:25:12
- 17. Gravitational radiation II 01:30:30
- 18. Cosmology I 01:28:53
- 19. Cosmology II 01:36:44
- 20. Spherical compact sources I 01:03:40
- 21. Spherical compact sources II 01:13:39
- 22. Black holes I 01:26:35
- 23. Black holes II 01:11:40
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