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Einstein's General Theory of Relativity - Lecture 7
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- 1 Time: AM
- 2 Neutron Stars and Black Holes Lecture - 7: Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
- 3 The Physical Content of Einstein's General Theory of Relativity
- 4 Dining Hall of Trinity College, Cambridge Christmas Recess, 1933
- 5 6 November, 1919
- 6 Deflection of light by the Sun
- 7 Sir J.J. Thompson President, Royal Society
- 8 Times 7 November 1919
- 9 Ticker Tape Parade for Einstein New York, April, 1921
- 10 Newton's Laws of Motion
- 11 The Aristotelian view
- 12 Inertial Observers
- 13 Newton's principle of Relativity
- 14 Einstein's Principle of relativity
- 15 Results of Special Relativity
- 16 Hermann Minkowski
- 17 Space-time before Minkowski
- 18 Sheets of paper
- 19 Minkowski's space-time
- 20 Minkowski's spacetime
- 21 Einstein was not impressed with Minkowski's ideas.
- 22 Newton's gravity inconsistent with special relativity
- 23 Henri Poincare
- 24 Principle of relativity at odds with gravity
- 25 Newton's Principle of Equivalence
- 26 Principle of Equivalence
- 27 Equality of inertial mass & gravitational mass
- 28 "Happiest thought of my life"
- 29 A freely falling frame is an inertial frame!
- 30 Principle of Equivalence Einstein's 'thought experiments'
- 31 Einstein's principle of equivalence: 1907
- 32 Gravitational red shift
- 33 Deflection of light: 1911
- 34 Deflection of light in Newtonian gravity
- 35 Deflection of light: 1915
- 36 March 1912
- 37 ALL acceleration derived from gravitational and inertial forces are 'metrical in origin'
- 38 Let us break up Newton's law into two parts:
- 39 Einstein's basic premise
- 40 1912: Einstein returns to Zurich
- 41 Einstein - Grossman collaboration
- 42 Einstein's basic premise: 1912
- 43 Einstein-Grossmann paper - 1913
- 44 Einstein's Laws of gravitation
- 45 Newtonian Gravity
- 46 In regions where no matter is present
- 47 In regions where matter is present
- 48 Conservation Laws
- 49 Einstein's field equations
- 50 Newtonian limit
- 51 Einstein-Hilbert field equations
- 52 The Schwarzschild Solution
- 53 On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry. Bernhard Riemann
- 54 Nature and Nature's laws lay hid at night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.
- 55 Next Lecture - Maximum mass of Neutron Stars
- 56 Q&A
