PHY 20
Relativity and Cosmology
Introduction to relativity and cosmology. First part discusses special relativity, including connections to electromagnetism and particle physics. Second part discusses gravity, including geodesic motion, curvedspacetime, astrophysical objects, and black hole solutions. Third part discusses cosmology, including the expanding universe, the dark universe, and the very early universe. Calculus will be used, but more advanced mathematics is not required.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Current public catalogue; retrieved 2026-11-05