Einstein's General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 6

Lecture 6 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity. Recorded October 27, 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.

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• science
• calculus
• physics
• space-time
• geodesics
• metric
• string
• theory
• relativity
• curvature
• taylor
• expansion
• tensor
• covariance
• Christoffel
• parallel
• transport
• infinite
• cone
• torsion
• spiral
• torus
• line
• integral
• transformatio

[quantomic1106]

whats up with the dude asking stupid questions?

[Aure217]

Would just like to point out that when the lecturer doesn't have immediate answers to questions, it's because the questions aren't phrased in a way that makes sense.

(Like...the questions aren't "Is the sheep actually a cow?", they're "Will the bricks be sleeping quickly yesterday?")

[asdrojas]

he wrote the equation for covariant derivate wrong, gamma is negative for covariant indexes.

This results are from ricci and levi-civita, the last was who taught einstein this theories with a lot of difficulty cuz einstein was math retarded. Einstein's merit was to find eintein's equatioan using trial and error. However Hilberg, a true genious, found the equation first but give up the credit becouse einsten was a public hero (german + pacifist + jewish)

[Theironicfruit]

is it really said as 'everywhereS' or is 'everywhere a plural in its' self?

he keeps saying it. :)

[Theironicfruit]

i am not even a physic/math or science major or student and i followed these lectures. i wish this guy was my tutor instead of the idiots i had.

[zstrizzel]

A standard ring torus in 3-dimensional space has curvature... so it cannot be represented by a non-stretching piece of paper.

[patopato20]

@buttegowda

theta is the deficit angle, so it is very small when the cone is amlost flat

[Chewyfied]

@gikiian hahahahahahaha... oh that's a good one

[HKMFilms]

Hair cut!