5. The stress energy tensor and the Christoffel symbol.

MIT General Relativity, Spring 2020 Instructor: Scott Hughes View the complete course: YouTube Playlist: More on the stress-energy tensor: symmetries and the physical meaning of stress-energy components in a given representation.  Differential formulation of conservation of energy and conservation of momentum.  Prelude to curvature: special relativity and tensor analyses in curvilinear coordinates.  The Christoffel symbol and covariant derivatives. 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