Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Understanding Gravity

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.

• 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