Einstein's General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 5

Lecture 5 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity. Recorded October 20, 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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Tags:

• science
• calculus
• physics
• space-time
• tensors
• scalar
• vector
• curvillinear
• coordinates
• geometry
• topology
• partial
• derivative
• covariant
• flat-space
• cartesian
• indices
• gamma
• metric
• differentation
• symmetric
• delta
• christoffel
• tange

[KinStrategy]

This is really a very generous gift to the community of those interested in learning. Thank you for posting these videos, professor!

[1234spankymc]

I'm looking forward to seeing the remaining videos once they get uploaded!

[alrojas37]

He write the formula for the covariants derivates wrong, the term with gamma is negative for covariants components

[sssandhu78]

I get a kick everytime he says "everwheres"

[adelle0001]

nice one! thanks

[agapitoflores001]

Einstein id my idol. I bet he's the professors idol too. LOL

[bigbobgotu]

@StudyAcademic it slows to protect the cosmic "speed limit" what is the speed of light, so it slows down so u cant go over that

[csmcmillion]

@gikiian None. He gives the class copies of his notes.