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Course Name	Turkish	Genel Görelilik Kuramı
	English	General Relavity
Course Code	FIZ 623	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	-	-	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Neşe Özdemir
Course Objectives		Special Relativity: Concepts of space-time, inertial, non-inertial observers, 4-velocity 4-acceleration Tensor Formalism: Tensor algebra, Tensor calculus General Relativity: Principles of general relativity; equivalence, general covariance, minimal coupling, correspondence principles. Field Equations of General Relativity: Vacuum Einstein field equations, non-vacuum Einstein field equations; energy-momentum tensor, electromagnetic fields derivation of Maxwell equations Solution of Einstein Field equations: Schwarzschild solution, stationary solutions, isotropic coordinates,gravitationa waves. Tests of General Relativity: Advance of perihelion of Mercury, bending of light, time delay of light, gravitational red-shift, Eötvös experiment Cosmological Models: Friedmann models, de Sitter models
Course Description		Special Relativity: Concepts of space-time, inertial, non-inertial observers, 4-velocity 4-acceleration Tensor Formalism: Tensor algebra, Tensor calculus General Relativity: Principles of general relativity; equivalence, general covariance, minimal coupling, correspondence principles. Field Equations of General Relativity: Vacuum Einstein field equations, non-vacuum Einstein field equations; energy-momentum tensor, electromagnetic fields derivation of Maxwell equations Solution of Einstein Field equations: Schwarzschild solution, stationary solutions, isotropic coordinates,gravitationa waves. Tests of General Relativity: Advance of perihelion of Mercury, bending of light, time delay of light, gravitational red-shift, Eötvös experiment Cosmological Models: Friedmann models, de Sitter models
Course Outcomes		Special Relativity: Concepts of space-time, inertial, non-inertial observers, 4-velocity 4-acceleration Tensor Formalism: Tensor algebra, Tensor calculus General Relativity: Principles of general relativity; equivalence, general covariance, minimal coupling, correspondence principles. Field Equations of General Relativity: Vacuum Einstein field equations, non-vacuum Einstein field equations; energy-momentum tensor, electromagnetic fields derivation of Maxwell equations Solution of Einstein Field equations: Schwarzschild solution, stationary solutions, isotropic coordinates,gravitationa waves. Tests of General Relativity: Advance of perihelion of Mercury, bending of light, time delay of light, gravitational red-shift, Eötvös experiment Cosmological Models: Friedmann models, de Sitter models
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