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Title: 
Introduction to General Relativity
Lecturer: 
Mordehai Milgrom
Type: 
Basic
Teaching Assistant: 
Mordehai Milgrom
Syllabus: 

The equivalence principle, gravitational red-shift.
Principle of general covariance.
Curved manifolds (spaces): metric, connection, parallel transport, curvature, etc.
Physics in curved space-time: particle dynamics, electromagnetism, hydrodynamics, etc.
The Einstein Equation. Solutions: black holes, cosmology, etc.
Symmetric spaces. Vielbein formalism.

Not given this academic year.

Theoretical and Experimental Astrophysics

Comments and suggestions to tal.alexander@weizmann.ac.il
Last Updated: 05/04/2013 11:36:05

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