PHYS475
Introduction to Relativity, Gravitation and Cosmology
Prerequisite: PHYS373 and PHYS410; or permission of instructor. Restriction: Permission of CMNS-Physics department. Jointly offered with: PHYS675. Additional information: Intended primarily for undergraduate physics majors. Review of special relativity, followed by a study of the equivalence principle, curved spacetimes, and Einstein's equations. Selected applications to the solar system, stellar structure, black holes, gravitational waves, and cosmology.
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