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10. Spacetime curvature.

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MIT 8.962 General Relativity, Spring 2020
Instructor: Scott Hughes
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How a certain spacetime duplicates the kinematics of Newtonian gravity for slow motion (continuation of lecture 9).  Spacetime curvature, deduced by examining parallel transport of a vector around an infinitesimal parallelogram, described by the Riemann tensor (a 4 index tensor with 20 independent components).

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