
Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime: Understanding Gravity
The Art of Experiment
Jun 1, 2020 · 29 min The Great Courses Signature Collection
Available on Prime Video
S1, E5: Learn how distances in the solar system were first determined. Then chart Henry Cavendish's historic experiment that found the value of Newton's gravitational constant. Cavendish's work allows almost everything in the universe to be weighed. Then see a confirmation of the equivalence principle, which says that gravitational and inertial mass are identical.
Jun 1, 2020 · 29 min