Id: 040537 Credits Min: 3 Credits Max: 3

Description

Special relativity and Lorentz transformations; Scalar and electromagnetic fields; Curved spacetime and the metric tensor; The equivalence principle; Geodesics, covariant derivatives, and Killing vectors; Einstein's field equations; The energy conditions; Relativistic cosmology and the expanding Universe; (Special topics: Schwarzschild solution and black holes; Penrose-Carter diagrams; Quantum gravity)

Prerequisites

PHYS.3540 Electromagnetism II, and PHYS.3820 Mathematical Physics II, and PHYS.4130 Mechanics.

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