Recorded: April 17, 2014
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Lecture 6: General Relativity 2
Course Description: "Einstein's General Relativity and Gravitation" is taught at UCI as Physics 255. Topics covered: Proper Time and the Derivation of the Equation of Free Fall from a Variational Principle. Significance for the Quantum Mechanical Feynman Path Integral. Newtonian Limit. Time Dilation and Gravitational Red Shift. Order of Magnitude Estimates.
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