General Relativity, Lecture 18: Tests of GR. Precession of the Perihelion of Mercury.

Lecture 18 of my General Relativity course at McGill University, Winter 2011. Geodesics of the Schwarzschild Solution. Precession of the Perihelion of Mercury. The course webpage, including links to other lectures and problem sets, is available at

http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~maloney/514/

The written notes for this lecture are available at

http://www.physics.mcgill.ca/~maloney/514/514-18.pdf