Lecture 05: General Relativity - Physics & Astronomy - Northeastern ...
Lecture 05: General Relativity - Physics & Astronomy - Northeastern ...
Lecture 05: General Relativity - Physics & Astronomy - Northeastern ...
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<strong>Northeastern</strong>IllinoisUniversityHistorical Milestones in <strong>Relativity</strong>Special<strong>Relativity</strong><strong>General</strong><strong>Relativity</strong>MilestonesPrinciple ofEquivalence<strong>General</strong><strong>Relativity</strong>PositiveCurvatureNegativeCurvatureCurvature &Energy DensityGravity fromCurvature“Bending” ofLightGravitationalLensingPrecession ofperihelionGravitationalRed ShiftBlack HolesBlack Holes IIPulsarGravitationalWavesBinary Pulsar1860 Maxwell’s Equations1881 Michelson’s Interferometer1887 Michelson-Morley Experiment1903 Lorentz Transformations19<strong>05</strong> Albert Einstein’s Special <strong>Relativity</strong>1916 Albert Einstein’s <strong>General</strong> <strong>Relativity</strong>1919 Eddington observes “bending” of light.2008 You explain relativity to your friends and family.Cosmology c○2004, 2007 G. Anderson <strong>Physics</strong> III – slide 10 / 37
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