Professor G Srinivasan
Visiting Professor, Indian Institute for Astrophysics
This summer course aims to give a broad perspective on gravity, astrophysics and cosmology and is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in physics and astronomy. Professor G Srinivasan is a specialist in Condensed matter Physics and Astrophysics and is an excellent teacher. After acquiring his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1970, he had a distinguished career as a scientist and teacher at the IBM Research Laboratory, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Cambridge, and Raman Research Institute. He has done pioneering work in condensed matter physics and astrophysics, and is the author of the best selling popular science books “What Are The Stars?” and “Can Stars Find Peace?”.
Topics:
L 1 : Einstein's Theory of Relativity
L 2 : Principles of Radiative Transfer (Video)
L 3 : What are the stars? (Video)
L 4 : The case of the missing neutrinos (Video)
L 5 : Quantum stars (Video)
L 6 : Supernovae and Neutron Stars (Video)
L 7 : Journey to the centre of a Neutron Star (Video)
L 8 : Pulsars (Video)
L 9 : Black Holes (Video)
L 10 : Between the stars (Video)
L 11 : Galaxies (Video)
L 12 : The Present Revolution in Astronomy - Geometry of the Universe (Video)
L 13 : Contemporary Cosmology II (Video)
Schedule
May 17, 19 *
May 24, 26 *
May 31, June 2 **
June 7, 9 **
June 21, 23 *
June 28, 30 **
July 5 **
Time: 10:00 AM
Venue: Ramanujan Lecture Hall * / Madhava Lecture Hall **, ICTS Campus, Bangalore
Table of Contents (powered by https://videoken.com)
0:00:00 Journey through the Universe
0:00:08 How Einstein discovered The General Theory of Relativity (Lecture-01)
0:00:46 Dining Hall of Trinity College, Cambridge Christmas Recess, 1933
0:02:35 6 November, 1919
0:02:52 Deflection of light by the Sun
0:04:23 Times 7 November 1919
0:05:22 Ticker Tape Parade for Einstein New York, April, 1921
0:08:14 Newton's Laws of Motion
0:09:04 The Aristotelian view
0:10:59 Inertial Observers
0:11:48 Newton's principle of Relativity
0:13:34 Einstein's Principle of relativity
0:14:48 Results of Special Relativity
0:15:54 Hermann Minkowski
0:17:05 Space-time before Minkowski
0:18:42 Minkowski's space-time
0:19:26 Minkowski's spacetime
0:22:47 Minkowski's space-time provides an objective geometry that is not dependent on any particular observer
0:23:25 Einstein was not impressed with Minkowski's ideas.
0:24:14 Newton's gravity inconsistent with special relativity
0:25:59 Henri Poincare
0:27:11 Principle of relativity at odds with gravity
0:28:49 Newton's Principle of Equivalence
0:29:53 Principle of Equivalence
0:31:09 Equality of inertial mass & gravitational mass
0:34:03 "Happiest through of my life"
0:34:40 A freely falling frame is an inertial frame!
0:35:27 Experiment 1 & 2
0:37:39 Einstein's principle of equivalence: 1907
0:42:24 Interestingly, Einstein did not pursue these dramatic deductions any further in 1907.
0:44:21 Gravitational red shift
0:45:26 Deflection of light: 1911
0:47:28 Deflection of light in Newtonian gravity
0:50:22 March 1912
0:54:22 The geometry of space-time which encapsulates Einstein's theory of relativity is pseudo Euclidean.
0:55:37 The rate of ticking of a clock depends on the gravitational potential at the location of the clock
1:00:55 Let us go back to a Cartesian frame. Now 'turn on' the gravitational field.
1:02:20 ALL acceleration derived from gravitational and inertial forces are 'metrical in origin'
1:03:08 Let us break up Newton's first law into two parts:
1:06:25 Einstein's basic premise
1:08:36 1912: Einstein returns to Zurich
1:09:04 Einstein - Grossman collaboration
1:11:26 Einstein's basic premise: (1912)
1:13:10 Einstein-Grossmann paper - 1913
1:14:10 Laws of gravitation
1:15:32 Newtonian Gravity
1:16:24 Einstein's generalizations
1:18:31 In regions where no matter is present
1:20:04 In regions where matter is present
1:22:01 Conservation Laws
1:23:10 Einstein's field equations
1:24:02 Newtonian limit
1:26:49 Einstein-Hilbert field equations
1:28:00 The Schwarzschild Solution
1:32:50 On the Hypotheses which lie at the Bases of Geometry. Bernhard Riemann
1:34:44 On the Permissible Numerical Value of the Curvature of Space
1:37:06 Nature and Nature's laws lay hid at night: God said, Let Newton be! And all was light. Alexander pope