Einstein's General Theory of Relativity | Lecture 9

Lecture 9 of Leonard Susskind's Modern Physics concentrating on General Relativity. Recorded November 17, 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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http://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/

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

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[Lambda45]

Leonard and Stanford, you did a great service to physics by putting these lectures online. Please upload the whole course as soon as you can! I have been checking almost everyday for lecture 10 and I know many others are eagerly waiting as well. Thanks again for a great job. Leonard's clarity of thinking and of explaining somewhat difficult concepts is outstanding!

[Wizard4592]

God I love these lectures. Finally learned how the Riemann tensor is related to parallel transport, and why there is -1/2gR in the Einstein tensor. I couldn't figure this out by staring for hours in MTH.

[adelle0001]

nice one! very informative

[agapitoflores001]

Einstein is a real genius, isn't he? I wanna try being like him.. haha

[calebp9503]

his mathematical notes are kind of lazy, and unorganized, but he still gets his point across. i would prefer to see the theory presented with more structured mathematical notes

[csmcmillion]

@fermista It's the other way around.

[fibonacci112358s]

@newtonswig

HAHA!!!!

Indeed... the learning curve is getting a bit steep here. I'm still trying to get my head around gravity waves...

[fermista]

@LeMegasandwich I personally think the most profound conclusion about physics is that because nature can be described in terms of mathematical equations, nature behaves logically.

[newtonswig]

@TSP105 For reasons that refuse to make themselves clear, I plotted the views against lecture number on a graph. It actually pretty closely follows an inverse square law. Spooky.....