Class 6

Notes index

Class 4

Origin of the Universe - Class 5

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Comments and answers on homework 3:
- Maria (Maja) Einstein and Helen Dukas
- Comment on variabiliy of g
- Gravitational effects propagate at speed c
- Precession of perihelion, orbits in Newton's theory and in General Relativity

Review of class 4 by Dion Hamler. Review of class 5, part 1, by Tracy Carroll.

Supplement to class 3:
- Space-time diagrams in some detail; importance of minus sign in the Minkowski metric.

Short biographies, adapted from Eric's treasure trove:

Niels Bohr - Heisenberg - Schrödinger - P.A.M. Dirac