Einstein's General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 8

Lecture 8 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity. Recorded November 10, 2008 at Stanford University.

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 classical mechanics. Leonard Susskind is the Felix Bloch Professor of Physics at Stanford University.

Stanford Continuing Studies:
http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/

About Leonard Susskind:
http://www.stanford.edu/dept/physics/people/faculty/susskind_leonard.html

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

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• science
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• tensor
• calculus
• vector
• space
• time
• relativity
• cosmology
• covariance
• differentation
• derivative
• components
• metric
• gamma
• reference
• frame
• indices
• gravitational
• field
• potential
• curvature
• Reimannian
• geometry
• geodesics
• topology

[camino1ca]

My brain exploded

[ogirv101]

This took 12 hours to finish, I'm glad that instead of procrastinating doing stupid things, I actually learned something very important.

[HaloSakura13]

@ogirv101 But there are twelve lectures and most are almost two hours long...

[msjessypp]

some sweet info here

[thejameskan]

Very enjoyable thank you

[staranjela]

really informative and interesting

[ghostinthemean]

"By now I've lost the thread - I don't know how many times I've changed the sign". HA! The sun is still.

[thegreeensky]

mind bugging... great lecture.. very helpful..

[adelle0001]

nice one! informative video thanks for uploading

[agapitoflores001]

A little more hair then he would pretty much look like Einstein.