Or perhaps http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-224-exploring-black-holes-general-relat... On 2013-08-23 17:41, Mike Speciner wrote:
What about http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/physics/8-962-general-relativity-spring-2006/ ? On 2013-08-23 17:21, Henry Baker wrote:
I've been watching Prof. Suskind (Stanford) do his GR lectures available on iTunes U and YouTube. While these lectures have a lot of problems, they appear to be about the only (free) online GR lectures that I've been able to find on the Internet.
It's a shame that the Khan Academy doesn't do GR; I think that Sal Khan's GR lectures would be immensely better than Suskind's.
It occurred to me that a series of GR lectures, if properly done & properly motivated, could be accessible to the more advanced high school student -- particularly if the lectures avoided the incredibly intimidating tensor notation.
Suskind himself uses some pretty basic geometric examples, involving no more than hyperbolic sines & cosines.
It's now been 100 years, and GR as a geometric theory has had all of the kinks worked out. I think that it is high time that GR be taught in high school as an extension of geometry -- probably in conjunction with spherical geometry to set up an analogy.
There's no need for GR to be so mysterious that it is accessible to only 1% of the population.
Note that I'm _not_ talking about quantum mechanics or the integration of quantum mechanics with GR; I'm merely talking about a classical geometry of curved spaces & times.
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