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.