FIZ 494E - General Relativity

Course Objectives

1. Understanding the general structure of space-time and interpretation results of astrophysical experiments
2. Finding trajectories of the astrophysical objects as well as light in the presence of gravitational field 3. Differences on Newtonian and Einsteinian orbits
4. Examining vacuum and matter field solutions of the field equations 5. Understanding general structure of the universe.

Course Description

Special relativity revisited, spacetime structure, tensor calculus, principles of general relativity, Einstein's field equations, speherically symmetric static vacuum solution, geodesic equations, tests of general relativity, gravitational waves, cosmological models.