General Relativity Video Lecture by Sean Carroll

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General Relativity Video Lecture by Sean Carroll

Postby houserichichi » Mon Dec 18, 2006 7:57 pm

This is the guy who wrote the textbook I used to learn GR. The link is at the bottom of this post. It's not a popular introduction, it has real math and is a set of three individual hour-long lectures on introductory general relativity. It would help to know some basic calculus, calculus of variations, and some special relativity. Beyond that, if you don't quite catch the math itself you can always go through and watch the video to see how much you actually grasp...who knows, you might enjoy it.

It's not particularly rigorous.

http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/ssi/2005/lec_notes/Carroll/default.htm
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Postby PWrong » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:19 am

The notes look interesting, but the introduction can't be found and the videos don't work for me. I searched for it and found the page again, but that time the introduction was the same as the notes :\. What's a .ram file?
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Postby houserichichi » Tue Dec 19, 2006 3:40 am

Realplayer located here:

http://www.real.com/

It's free. Sorry, should have included that in the first post. They're streaming video, so if you're on a slow line odds are good it'll chunk out on you...sorry.

The No-Nonsense Introduction to General Relativity (lecture notes that don't work on the page) are located here:

http://pancake.uchicago.edu/~carroll/notes/grtinypdf.pdf



What a sloppy post...sorry everyone!
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