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Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Un-
derstanding Gravity
Course no. 1231 | 24 lectures (30 minutes/lecture)
Gravity: The Most Dominant

Force in the Universe?

Gravity rules the universe. It governs the rising and falling of tides, and
it holds celestial objects in their orbits. 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. Your guide through these 24 awe-
inspiring, illustrated lectures is Professor Benjamin Schumacher of Kenyon
College—a prominent theoretical physicist and a protégé of John Archibald
Wheeler, the gravity theorist who first coined the term “black hole.”

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Black Holes, Tides,

and Curved Spacetime:

Understanding Gravity

Taught by Professor Benjamin Schumacher

KENYON COLLEGE

LECTURE TTLES

1. The Strangest Force


2. Free Fall and Inertia


3. Revolution in the Heavens


4. Universal Gravitation


5. The Art of Experiment


6. Escape Velocity, Energy, and Rotation


7. Stars in Their Courses—Orbital Mechanics


8. What Are Tides? Earth and Beyond


9. Nudge—Perturbations of Orbits


10. Resonance—Surprises in the Intricate Dance


11. The Million-Body Problem


12. The Billion-Year Battle


13. From Forces to Fields


14. The Falling Laboratory


15. Spacetime in Zero Gravity


16. Spacetime Tells Matter How to Move


17. Matter Tells Spacetime How to Curve


18. Light in Curved Spacetime


19. Gravitomagnetism and Gravitational Waves


20. Gravity’s Horizon—Anatomy of a Black Hole


21. Which Universe Is Ours?


22. Cosmic Antigravity—Infl ation and Dark Energy


23. The Force of Creation


24. The Next Revolution

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