S357 Videocassette 3

Series: Space, Time and Cosmology, Course S357
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 114 min.
Year of production: 1997
Availability: Sale; 1999 sale: £120.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Notes: Support video for course S356, for use with Block 3. The five bands present an account of Einstein’s general theory of relativity. Explains the principle of equivalence and the principle of the universality of freefall, which assert that gravity and acceleration are in a certain sense equivalent. General relativity describes curved four-dimensional space-time, which is explained in terms of a more easily visualised analogy: curved two-dimensional space. The mathematics thus developed is translated to the realistic case. Finally evidence in favour of general relativity is discussed, including gravitational waves and black holes.
Subjects: Physics
Keywords: history of science; relativity theory

Producer

Ian Thomas

Cast

Andrew Burt

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