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LECTURE TITLES
1. The Strangest Force
2. Free Fall and Inertia
3. Revolution in the Heavens
4. Universal Gravitation
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Black Holes, Tides,
and Curved Spacetime:
Understanding Gravity
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5. The Art of Experiment
6. Escape Velocity, Energy, and Rotation
7. Stars in Their Courses—Orbital Mechanics
8. What Are Tides? Earth and Beyond
9. Nudge—Perturbations of Orbits
10. Resonance—Surprises in the Intricate Dance
11. The Million-Body Problem
12. The Billion-Year Battle
13. From Forces to Fields
14. The Falling Laboratory
15. Spacetime in Zero Gravity
16. Spacetime Tells Matter How to Move
17. Matter Tells Spacetime How to Curve
18. Light in Curved Spacetime
19. Gravitomagnetism and Gravitational Waves
20. Gravity’s Horizon—Anatomy of a Black Hole
21. Which Universe Is Ours?
22. Cosmic Antigravity—Infl ation and Dark Energy
23. The Force of Creation
24. The Next Revolution
Gravity: The Most Dominant
Force in the Universe?
Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Un-
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Gravity rules the universe. It governs the rising and falling of tides, and
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dissolve into a gas of randomly interacting atoms. Yet gravity is one of the
least understood forces in nature.
Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime introduces you to key ideas in
gravity research over the past 400 years. Your guide through these 24 awe-
inspiring, illustrated lectures is Professor Benjamin Schumacher of Kenyon
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Wheeler, the gravity theorist who first coined the term “black hole.”
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