Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Prerequisites: PYL127
Description
Revision of special relativity, Notations, Equivalence principle, Introduction to tensor calculus, Metric, Parallel transport, covariant derivative and Christoffel symbols, Geodesic, Riemann curvature tensor, Ricci tensor, Geodesic deviation equation, Stress-Energy tensor, Einstein equation, Meaning of Einstein equation, Schwarzschild solution, Trajectories in Schwarzschild space-time, Perihelion shift, Binary pulsars, Gravitational deflection of light, Gravitational lensing, Gravitational collapse, Black holes, Hawking Radiation, Gravitational waves, Cosmology: Models of the universe and the cosmological principle, Cosmological metrics, Types of universe, Robertson-Walker universes, Big Bang, Dark energy.
Prerequisite Tree
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PYL332-641[PYL332]
PYL332-641 --> PYL127-641[PYL127]
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