Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Understanding Gravity

Offered By: The Great Courses Plus

Course Description

Overview

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.

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

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