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LECTURE 25
questions after lecture
it is important that you be able to answer these
and very important to answer these
- State the Principle of Equivalence and give an example.
- Define a geodesic.
- Explain how light travels on a geodesic in curved spacetime.
- Explain what is meant by Dynamics is Kinematics is Mathematics. What kind of mathematics?
- State Einstein's new Principle of Inertia. How is it a generalization of Newton's First Law, piece by piece?
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Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.
Revised October 23, 1997.
Content © 1997, Bernice Durand
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