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MIT 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2020

by MIT OpenCourseWare · 23 videos

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1d 6h 23m

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

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