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Currently Playing: Relativity 108c: Schwarzschild Metric - Geodesics (Mercury perihelion advance, photon sphere)

Full relativity playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJHszsWbB6hqlw73QjgZcFh4DrkQLSCQa Powerpoint slide files: https://github.com/eigenchris/MathNotes/tree/master/Relativity Leave me a tip: https://ko-fi.com/eigenchris Also see dXoverdteqprogress's video on the perihelion of Mercury: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjD0Sa2_kK4 0:00 Introduction 1:14 Geodesics Review 5:28 Newtonian Orbits Review 9:55 Constants of Motion (Geodesics) 16:20 Tangent Vector Length (Geodesics) 18:27 Timelike Geodesics (massive bodies) 20:21 Graphing Effective Potentials 26:38 Lightlike Geodesics (photon sphere) 28:24 Perihelion Advance of Mercury 34:48 Summary