Peer into one of the great mysteries of modern physics-the force of gravity-in this brilliant and insightful course taught by an award-winning professor of physics.
Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Understanding Gravity
Overview
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: The Strangest Force
- 02: Free Fall and Inertia
- 03: Revolution in the Heavens
- 04: Universal Gravitation
- 05: The Art of Experiment
- 06: Escape Velocity, Energy, and Rotation
- 07: Stars in Their Courses-Orbital Mechanics
- 08: What Are Tides? Earth and Beyond
- 09: Nudge-Perturbations of Orbits
- 10: Resonance-Surprises in the Intricate Dance
- 11: The Million-Body Problem
- 12: The Billion-Year Battle
- 13: From Forces to Fields
- 14: The Falling Laboratory
- 15: Spacetime in Zero Gravity
- 16: Spacetime Tells Matter How to Move
- 17: Matter Tells Spacetime How to Curve
- 18: Light in Curved Spacetime
- 19: Gravitomagnetism and Gravitational Waves
- 20: Gravity's Horizon-Anatomy of a Black Hole
- 21: Which Universe Is Ours?
- 22: Cosmic Antigravity-Inflation and Dark Energy
- 23: The Force of Creation
- 24: The Next Revolution
Taught by
Benjamin Schumacher
