Teaching methods
- 16 hrs lecture
- 16 hrs problem session
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Pre-requisites
Tensors and Applications
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Objectives
- The student is able to apply tensor analysis to GRT problems
- The student understands the Einstein equations and their consequences
- The student is able to to solve or at least discuss their solution in simple cases
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Contents
GRT is essential to understand the structure and evolution of the cosmos. Tensor analysis is an indispensable tool.
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Subjects
- Special relativity summary
- Newtonian and post-Newtonian gravity
- Einstein equations
- Schwarzschild solution
- the cosmological constan
- gravitational waves
- simple cosmological models
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Examination
Take-home tentamen
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Literature
Necessary: - W. Rindler, Relativity: Special, General and Cosmological, 2nd edition 2006, Oxford Univ. Press, ISBN 9780-1985-67325
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