Professor Susskind opens the lecture with a brief review the geometries of flat and curved spaces. General relativity. It is said that general relativity and quantum mechanics are separate subjects that don’t fit together comfortably. Lesson 1: The equivalence principle and tensor analysis: Lesson 2: Tensor mathematics: Lesson 3: Flatness and curvature: Lesson 4: Geodesics and gravity: This time, they introduce readers to Einstein's special relativity and Maxwell's classical field theory. Quantum entanglement. I am by no means an expert in general relativity. Higgs boson. Further lecture courses in the Theoretical Minimum series have been delivered by Susskind, on these subjects (or with these titles): Advanced quantum mechanics. Course Description. There is a tension, even a contradiction between them—or so one often hears. Relativity. Cosmology. Statistical mechanics. Stanford,, Fall 2012 , Prof. Leonard Susskind are available on-line as video recordings, or in written notes . Professor Susskind begins the first lecture of the course with Einstein's derivation of this equivalence principle. Supplemental Courses. This lecture focuses on the mathematics of tensors, which represent the core concepts of general relativity. Leonard Susskind (/ ˈ s ʌ s k ɪ n d /; born 1940) is an American physicist, who is a professor of theoretical physics at Stanford University, and founding director of the Stanford Institute for Theoretical Physics.His research interests include string theory, quantum field theory, quantum statistical mechanics and quantum cosmology. The principle of equivalence of gravity and acceleration, or gravitational and inertial mass is the fundamental basis of general relativity. I know thesubject,howtouseit.ButwhenIhavetodosomething involvinggeneralrelativity,Igobacktotheindices.Ican ... Over the career of Professor Susskind in physics it went from being real backwaters in physics to the fore-front. Via Dmitry Podolsky, a series of YouTube videos from Stanford encompassing an entire course by Lenny Susskind on general relativity.I didn’t look closely enough to figure out exactly what level the lectures are pitched at, but it looks like a fairly standard advanced-undergrad or beginning-grad introduction to the subject. General Relativity ,Fall 2012. Nobody studied general relativity very much in the This was Einstein's key insight. Susskind is widely regarded as one of the fathers of string theory, having, with Yoichiro Nambu and Holger Bech Nielsen, independently introduced the idea that particles could in fact be states of excitation of a relativistic string. He then develops the mathematics of covariant and contravariant vectors, their coordinate transformations, and their relationship to tensors. Using their typical brand of real math, enlightening drawings, and humor, Susskind and Friedman walk us through the complexities of waves, forces, and particles by exploring special relativity and electromagnetism. Instead Susskind says: Dear Qubitzers, GR=QM? General Relativity. This Stanford Continuing Studies course is the fourth of a six-quarter sequence of classes exploring the essential theoretical foundations of modern physics. Notes from Professor Leonard Susskind video lectures publicly available on YouTube . In this course, Professor Leonard Susskind gives 12 video lectures on Einstein's Theory of General Relativity. He was the first to introduce the idea of the string theory landscape in 2003. Table of contents. Well why not? Some of us already accept ER=EPR [1], so why not follow it to its logical conclusion?