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PHYS 458

Special and General Relativity

3 units

Fall 2017

Topics

  • Lorentz transformations and spacetime
  • Relativistic particles and energy–momentum
  • Tensors and curved geometry
  • Geodesics and equivalence principle
  • Einstein equations
  • Weak fields and gravitational lensing
  • Schwarzschild spacetime and black holes
  • Expanding universe
  • Gravitational waves

Readings

  • M. P. Hobson, G. Efstathiou and A. N. Lasenby. General Relativity. Cambridge University Press, 2006; selected chapters 1–5 and 7–9, time permitting 14 and 18.
    unspecified
  • David J. Griffiths. Introduction to Electrodynamics, 3rd edition, chapter 12. Prentice-Hall, 1999.
    recommended
  • L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz. The Classical Theory of Fields. Oxford Pergamon Press, 1975.
    recommended
Sources