Jason Kendall's Intro to Astronomy Course

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Module 3: Relativity and Gravity

06: General Relativity's Reason to Exist

Video References

• References for Module 3: Relativity and Gravity
  • Supplement the videos with "OpenStax Astronomy"
    • 24: Black Holes and Curved Spacetime
  • 06: General Relativity's Reason to Exist
    • General Relativity arises out of our need to reconcile the issues of Newtonian Gravity. It has some problems that only rethinking Gravity can solve.
    • Equivalence principle
    • What is Mass?
    • Newton's Cannonball
    • International Space Station
    • A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.
    • There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.
    • Star Trek's "Gravity Plating" (Fiction...)