Tensors and Relativity: Chapter 5

Conceptual Basis of General Relativity

• The story so far
• The gravitational redshift experiment
• Non- existence of an inertial frame at rest on earth
• Mass in Newtonian theory
• The principle of equivalence
• The principle of equivalence in action
  • Effect of gravity on light
  • Effect of gravity on time
  • Towards spacetime curvature
• Index
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