Lecture 17 - Tuesday, 12 March 2013

Chapter 11 - Sections 11.1 - 11.2

• General Relativity
• The big bang

Powerpoint Slides

Note: These slides do not include all material presented in class - additional material was presented on the blackboard, particularly the explanation of space-time diagrams and worldlines, which is not in the textbook.

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Supplementary Material

Today's demonstrations: (i) curvature of spacetime using a rubber sheet and balls.

Today's animations:

• The Equivalence Principle: free fall in a gravitational field: http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/anim/equ2.mpg

• The Equivalence Principle with light rays: http://www.phy.syr.edu/courses/modules/LIGHTCONE/anim/equv.mpg

• Animation of the Big Bang: http://snap.lbl.gov/multimedia/animations/BigBangAni.mov

• Gravity in Newton's Universe: http://einstein.stanford.edu/Media/Newtons_Universe_Anima-Flash.html

• Gravity in Einstein's Universe: http://einstein.stanford.edu/Media/Einsteins_Universe_Anima-Flash.html

• The Gravity Probe B mission: http://einstein.stanford.edu/index.html

• Einstein's Spacetime and lightcone diagram (Gravity Probe B at Stanford University): http://einstein.stanford.edu/SPACETIME/spacetime2.html

• Universe 101 - The Big Bang Theory (from NASA/WMAP): http://map.gsfc.nasa.gov/universe/

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