10. Spacetime curvature.

MIT General Relativity, Spring 2020 Instructor: Scott Hughes View the complete course: YouTube Playlist: How a certain spacetime duplicates the kinematics of Newtonian gravity for slow motion (continuation of lecture 9).  Spacetime curvature, deduced by examining parallel transport of a vector around an infinitesimal parallelogram, described by the Riemann tensor (a 4 index tensor with 20 independent components). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at More courses at Support OCW at We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at