General Relativity & Cosmology

PHY660A

 

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Mach's principle. Riemannian geometry. Energy momentum tensor and Einstein's equations. Schwarzschild metric and singularities of space time. Post Newtonian approximations. Spherically symmetric solutions of Einstein equations. Introduction to cosmology.

 

 

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