PHYS-4240: General Relativity

ASTR-4240: Gravitation & Cosmology

 

Professor Wayne G. Roberge

 

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Introduction to the physics of gravitation and spacetime, with an emphasis on cosmological applications. Special relativity, tensor calculus, and relativistic electrodynamics. Riemannian geometry. Einstein`s field equations. Observable consequences of general relativity (gravitational time dilation; gravitational lensing; frame dragging; gravitational radiation). The physics of nonrotating and rotating black holes. Relativistic models for the large-scale structure of the Universe. Observational constraints on the cosmological parameters. Big Bang nucleosynthesis, the Cosmic Background Radiation.

 

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