Gravitational Waves Explained Using Stick Figures

Опубликовано 8 июля 2016, 13:00

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This video is about gravitational waves in the weak field limit as discovered by the LIGO collaboration, explained by parallels to electromagnetic radiation, sound waves, water waves, etc. I want to see Cat LIGO ASAP!

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REFERENCES

Linearized Einstein Equations: web.phys.ntnu.no/\~mika/week10...

Gravitational Wave Detection: iopscience.iop.org/article/10....

LIGO Mirror Test mass suspension/isolation: gwoptics.org/hardware\_hacks/m...

Power radiation from Gravitational waves of Earth-Sun system: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitat...

Power radiation of electromagnetic waves from accelerating charge (Larmor formula): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larmor\_...

Strength & Directionality of Radiation from a binary source (p 12): aei.mpg.de/\~schutz/download/l...

Newtonian limit of GR, Metric as gravitational potential: ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Ma...

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