Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics

Benjamin Schumacher, Kenyon College

Gravity rules the universe. Without it, everything would dissolve into a gas of randomly interacting atoms. Yet gravity is one of the least understood forces in nature. Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime introduces you to key ideas in gravity research over the past 400 years. It's an awe-inspiring journey led by a prominent theoretical physicist

Rated TVPG

Mode of access: World Wide Web

Episode 1

The Strangest Force

Episode 2

Free Fall and Inertia

Episode 3

Revolution in the Heavens

Episode 4

Universal Gravitation

Episode 5

The Art of Experiment

Episode 6

Escape Velocity, Energy, and Rotation

Episode 7

Stars in Their Courses-Orbital Mechanics

Episode 8

What Are Tides? Earth and Beyond

Episode 9

Nudge-Perturbations of Orbits

Episode 10

Resonance-Surprises in the Intricate Dance

Episode 11

The Million-Body Problem

Episode 12

The Billion-Year Battle

Episode 13

From Forces to Fields

Episode 14

The Falling Laboratory

Episode 15

Spacetime in Zero Gravity

Episode 16

Spacetime Tells Matter How to Move

Episode 17

Matter Tells Spacetime How to Curve

Episode 18

Light in Curved Spacetime

Episode 19

Gravitomagnetism and Gravitational Waves

Episode 20

Gravity's Horizon-Anatomy of a Black Hole

Episode 21

Which Universe Is Ours?

Episode 22

Cosmic Antigravity-Inflation and Dark Energy

Episode 23

The Force of Creation

Episode 24

The Next Revolution