8.033 | Fall 2006 | Undergraduate

Relativity

Lecture Notes

lecture16_gr.pdf

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This resource contains lecture slides on strong and weak principles of equivalence, local equivalence of gravity and acceleration, elevator thought experiments, gravitational redshift, light bending, relative acceleration of test particles in falling elevator of finite size, definition of the metric tensor, and analogy between the metric tensor and the ordinary potential, and between Einstein’s field equations and Poisson’s equation.

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