Gravitational Waves Explained Using Stick Figures

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GO HERE NOW: https://www.einsteinathome.org • Einstein@Home wikipedia page: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einst... • 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! • Thanks to everyone who supports MinutePhysics on Patreon! / minutephysics • Link to Patreon supporters here: http://www.minutephysics.com/supporte... • Music by Nathaniel Schroeder, / drschroeder • REFERENCES • Linearized Einstein Equations: http://web.phys.ntnu.no/\\~mika/week10.pdf • Gravitational Wave Detection: http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.... • LIGO Mirror Test mass suspension/isolation: http://www.gwoptics.org/hardware\\_hacks/mirror\\_suspension/ • Power radiation from Gravitational waves of Earth-Sun system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravita...\\_wave#Power\\_radiated\\_by\\_orbiting\\_bodies • Power radiation of electromagnetic waves from accelerating charge (Larmor formula): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larmor\\_formula • Strength Directionality of Radiation from a binary source (p 12): http://www.aei.mpg.de/\\~schutz/download/lectures/AzoresCosmology/Schutz.AzoresLecture2.pdf • Newtonian limit of GR, Metric as gravitational potential: https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/M... • MinutePhysics is on Google+ - http://bit.ly/qzEwc6 • And facebook - / minutephysics • And twitter - @minutephysics • Minute Physics provides an energetic and entertaining view of old and new problems in physics -- all in a minute! • Created by Henry Reich

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