Credits: 3 (3-0-0)
Overlaps with: PYL332
Description
Brief review of special Relativity, Principle of equivalence: weak, strong and Einstein, Experimental evidence for equivalence principle of covariance, Curvilinear coordinates, Tensor algebra and tensor analysis, Parallel transport, Curvature tensor, Ricci and Einstein tensors, Einstein equation, The Schwarschild metric, Shift in perihelion of planets, Bending of light ray, Modern tests with light delay, Gravitational lensing, Gravitational waves, and their detection, Freidman-Robertston-Walker metric, the Hubble expansion.