4.3
The shape of spacetime
IB Astronomy Syllabus
SLSyllabus concepts to know
- 4.3.1 The ancient Greeks
- 4.3.2 Galileo Galilei and falling objects
- 4.3.3 Isaac Newton and the universal law of gravitation
- 4.3.4 Albert Einstein and General Relativity
- 4.3.5 The effect of gravity is equivalent to the acceleration of an object
- 4.3.6 Relativistic ideas about time and space can be reconciled by describing these things together as four-dimensional spacetime
- 4.3.7 Geometries for spacetime
- 4.3.8 Know that the Big Bang theory of cosmology raises questions
- 4.3.9 Inflation
4.2 Large scale structures in the universe
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